A lot of people seem to confusedly think that secrecy/anonymity in #adoption is part of “reproductive freedom” because they forget that the reproduction already happened, and that the infant is a person with rights of their own.
And by “a lot of people” I mean the fucking ACLU.
I will absolutely go so far as to say that the relegation of children to chattel status is a core part of whiteness. Unsurprisingly it was women from the Global South—the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo—who made the human rights of children to their own identities a part of international law. 🥚
