A domestic supply
This has taken my breath away. (You know how that goes, right? That one that’s so stunning you stare at it for long seconds, forgetting to breathe?)
The shops are running low on tomato sauce, so let’s offer farmers incentives for growing more tomatoes.
The adoption system is running low on babies, so we will now force women to produce them.
If Amy Coney Barrett really said that, it’s absolutely stunning.
OK…I still haven’t started breathing yet (and I’m not even a PWU–Person With Uterus lol).
I believe it. She’s basically a Charismatic Catholic, which if you know anything about them should make you want to run screaming. In her particular sect she literally had the title “handmaiden”.
Wouldn’t a low “domestic supply of infants” be a good thing? Wouldn’t that mean that more of the “supply of infants” are being cared for by their parents rather than having to be adopted?
They want white, healthy male infants.
Babies. People want babies. Never mind the children who could be adopted, except that they had the temerity to survive for a few months, or longer, so that they are no longer adorable, adoptable babies.
“Domestic supply of babies…” Trading in the commodity of babies, at the expense of those evil, expendable baby-making uterus-havers, formerly known as women. No independence for women. Women are subhuman. The evil orphans who didn’t stay babies are also expendable, discardable, non-human.
I’ve never heard anything so horrifying from a supposed “justice system.”
Indeed. Hence the forgetting to breathe for quite a long time.
No, Barrett did not say that. And the quoted Tweet is wrong, the Alito draft does not say that the US “needs” a “supply” of babies for adoption.
It’s from a footnote to page 34 of the Alito draft, citing the Centers for Disease Control who wrote (in 2008):
“Nearly 1 million women were seeking to adopt a child in 2002 … whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month and available to be adopted had become virtually nonexistent”.
The context there is “National Center for Health Statistics, Adoption and nonbiological parenting”, and is not to do with the issue of abortion.
Alito cites it to support the sentence “… a woman who puts her newborn up for adopption today has little reason to fear that the baby will not find a suitable home”.
Saying that the draft says that the US “needs a supply” is thus incorrect.
Human trafficking, eh?