In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Dobbs Issue

Emily Hipchen
pp. 163-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0011
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What Is Adopted in Dobbs?

Jessaca Leinaweaver
pp. 166-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0012
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The Dobbs Decision: Abortion, Adoption, and the Supreme Court

Peggy Phelan
pp. 171-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0013
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The Overturning of Roe V. Wade: Some "Ageing Adoptee" Thoughts, Questions, and a Wish List

Alice Diver
pp. 184-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0014
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Adoption, Abortion, and Nonpersons

Eric C. Walker
pp. 192-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0015
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Adoption: Not a Default Setting

Mary Cardaras
pp. 197-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0016
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My Adoption, My Abortion: Getting Clear About What Counts as a Reproductive Choice

Michele Merritt
pp. 203-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0017
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The Open Adoption Alternative, A Birthmother's Perspective

Amy Seek
pp. 210-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0018
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Originalism: Erasing Women from the Body Politic

Malinda l. Seymore
pp. 214-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0019
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You Can Always Adopt

Janice Schroeder
pp. 220-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0020
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Erosions of Settler State Recognition of Sovereignty and Reproductive Justice

Krista L. Benson
pp. 225-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0021
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We Both Grieved: Adoption, Abortion, and the Callous Indifference of Dobbs

Susan Bordo
pp. 231-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0022
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Adoption, Abortion, and Ambivalence: Processing the Dobbs Decision

Cynthia Callahan
pp. 237-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0023
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The Good Plaintiff

Gretchen Sisson
pp. 245-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0024
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Making Abortion Illegal Does Not Lead to More Adoptions

Laura Briggs
pp. 251-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0025
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: Curating Kinship in Alabama

Lucy D. Curzon
pp. 256-264
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0026
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Beyond Feelings: What's Missing from Trauma-Centered Adoption Narratives

Grace Shu Gerloff
pp. 265-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0027
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An Adoptee Responds to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision

Amy Strickler
pp. 268-272
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0028
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The Debt We Owe

Kori A. Graves
pp. 273-277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0029
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The Adoption "Alternative"

Sally Haslanger
pp. 278-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0030
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"Less Abortion, More Adoption": A Brief Discursive History of Adoption as Solution

Sarah Hae-In Idzik
pp. 284-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0031
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Aren't You Glad You Weren't Aborted? An Open Letter from an Adoptee

Liz Debetta
pp. 291-296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0032
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Saving Innocence

Sandra Patton-Imani
pp. 297-311
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0033
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The Dobbs Decision and the (False) Adoption "Option," A Personal Essay of "Ambiguous Loss"

Stephanie Flores-Koulish
pp. 312-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0034
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Separation, Sorrow, and Silence: What Birth Mothers and Birth Searching in Children's Literature Can Teach Us About the Abortion v. Adoption Debate

Sarah Park Dahlen
pp. 316-325
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0035
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"Would You Rather Have Been Aborted?": Why Adoption Is Not the Solution to Abortion

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Eleana J. Kim
pp. 326-332
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0036
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Birthmothers on Abortion: A Roundtable Discussion with Members of Ohio Birthparent Group on the Impacts of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Kate Livingston, Margaret A. Sabec, Members of Ohio Birthparent Group
pp. 333-362
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0037
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Taking Children: A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs, and: Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology by Sonja van Wichelen (review)

John McLeod
pp. 363-373
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0038
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Contributors' Notes

pp. 374-378
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0039
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