The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has thrust into the spotlight comments from Justice Amy Coney Barrett and others, who say that adoption is a workable substitution for abortion. Experts on Greater Boston say that argument misses the mark.
"Yeah sure, women are just baby carriers for people who have $50,000 to spend, right? It's outrageous," quipped Adam Pertman, the president, CEO and founder of the National Center on Adoption & Permanency.
"It's a marketplace in which the people who have money will get what they want and everybody else can suffer from trauma," Pertman, who is an adoptive father, said.
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Writer and adoptee Aimee Seiff Christian weighed in. "They've turned us into a commodity. We're not actually considered humans, we're not even considered babies, but a commodity," she said. "It's very clear that this is not about babies, it's about increasing the supply and demand of a thing. It's a business."
Christian said she experienced trauma growing up as an adoptee, and wishes her mother had been given a choice about what to do with her pregnancy.
Pertman said women who are forced to give their child up for adoption experience a lifetime of trauma as well, and long term, there will be more children in the foster care system.
Watch: “They’ve turned us into a commodity": Why adoption experts say it’s no substitute for abortion
