Listed chronologically beginning with most recently published work.

(This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Additional suggestions may be submitted here.)

Articles/Op-Eds/Essays

• 2022/06/29, My Turn (Newsweek) — “I Was Adopted after Roe v. Wade, I Wish Abortion Had Been an Option for My Birth Mom” by John Gregg, adoptee and family preservation activist (as told to Monica Greep)

• 2022/06/28, Visible Magazine — “From Political Pawns to Punchlines: Leave Adoptees Out of Your Abortion Arguments (and Memes)” by Stephanie Drenka, adoptee and editor

• 2022/06/28, Delaware Online — “In the Debate Over Abortion Rights, Adoption Isn’t an ‘Easy’ Solution. Trust Me, I Know.” by Isabel Hughes, adoptee and journalist

• 2022/06/24, Texas Observer — “More People Will Die if Texans Don’t Speak Up for Women’s Bodies” by Shawna Hodgson, adoptee and adoptee rights activist

• 2022/06/20, The Washington Post — “As an Adoptee, I Know: Adoption Is Not a Fairy-Tale Answer to Abortion” by Cynthia Landesberg, adoptee and attorney

• 2022/06/04, Bloomberg — “Adoption Is Not a Substitute for Abortion” by Kami Rieck, adoptee and editor

• 2022/05/09 – 2022/05/13, Bill of Health (Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law) — “Adoption, Family Separation & Preservation, and Reproductive Justice”, series of articles by contributors “that reflect not only an array of scholarly disciplines, but a range of lived experiences related to adoption, including adopted people, birth/first parents, and adoptive parents”; series edited by Gretchen Sisson, sociologist

• 2022/01/21, TODAY Parents (Today.com) — “On Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Adoptees Don’t Want To Be a ‘Pawn’ in Abortion Debates” by Danielle Campoamor featuring interviews with four adult adoptees

• 2022/01/18, Rewire News Group — “Adoption Agencies vs. ‘Roe’: The Invisible Hand Stirring the Pot” by Liana DeMasi, writer and granddaughter of a woman who lost a child to adoption

• 2021/12/26, Think: Opinion, Analysis, Essays (NBCNews.com) — “Adoption Doesn’t Mean Abortion Isn’t Needed, Even if Some Supreme Court Justices Think So” by Aimee Christian, adoptee, essayist and memoirist

• 2021/12/18, ekathimerini.com — “Adoption: Not a Default Setting” by Mary Cardaras, adoptee, documentary film producer and author

• 2021/12/17, The Seattle Times — “Adoption Is Not a Simple Solution to an Unwanted Pregnancy” by Lucia Blackwell, adoptee and editor

• 2021/12/09, I Have Notes (The Atlantic) — “A Choice in Name Only” by Nicole Chung, adoptee and author

• 2021/12/08, Vox — “Why Adoption Isn’t a Replacement for Abortion Rights” by Anna North, journalist

• 2021/12/07, The Nation — “What We Get Wrong About Adoption” by Gretchen Sisson, sociologist, and Jessica M. Harrison, adoptee and mental health clinician

• 2021/12/06, Red Letter Christians — “Is Pro-Life Evangelicalism Killing Adoptees?” by Sara Easterly, adoptee and author

• 2021/12/04, Thoughts and Ideas (Medium) — “Adoption Is Not an Alternative to Abortion” by Mindy Stern, adoptee and screenwriter

• 2021/12/03, The Independent — “My Birth Mother Didn’t Get the Option of Abortion. That’s Why I Stand Against the Texas Ban.” by Melissa Guida-Richards, adoptee and author

• 2021/12/03, Intelligencer — “Amy Coney Barrett’s Adoption Myths” by Irin Carmon, journalist – features interviews with adoptee and media consultant Angela Tucker, birth mother and educator Kate Livingston, sociologist Gretchen Sisson, and journalist Kathryn Joyce

• 2021/12/03, MadameNoire — “Justice Amy Barrett Thinks Adoption in Lieu of Abortion Is a Fairy Tale, But It’s Not to Millions of Black Moms and Adoptees” by Stacey Patton, adoptee and journalist

• 2021/12/03, The New York Times — “I Was Adopted. I Know the Trauma It Can Inflict.” by Elizabeth Spiers, adoptee and Democratic digital strategist

• 2021/12/03, The Washington Post — “Barrett Is Wrong: Adoption Doesn’t ‘Take Care of’ the Burden of Motherhood” by Gretchen Sisson, sociologist

• 2021/12/03, Adoptee Rights Law Center — “Before You Start Spouting Off About Haiti, Amy Coney Barrett, and the ‘Beauty’ of Adoption” by Gregory Luce, adoptee and attorney

• 2021/12/02, Vogue — “Adoption Isn’t the Solution to Abortion, No Matter What Amy Coney Barrett Says” by Emma Specter, culture writer

• 2021/09/21, Verdict (Justia) — “Abortion and the Adoption Option” by Sherry F. Colb, law professor

• 2021/09/01, Human Parts (Medium) — “I Am Adopted. That’s Why I Had an Abortion.” by Mindy Stern, adoptee and screenwriter

• 2021/04/01, Medium — “To Everybody Who Has Ever Asked an Adoptee About Their Views on Abortion–“ by Shannon Quist, adoptee and author

• 2019/05/29, HuffPost — “I’m Adopted and Pro-Choice. Stop Using My Story for the Anti-Abortion Agenda.” by Stephanie Drenka, adoptee and writer

• 2019/05/22, Psychology Today — “Adoption Is Not a Solution for Abortion” by Joanne Bagshaw, adoptee and therapist

• 2019/05/20, The Atlantic — “Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption” by Olga Khazan, journalist

• 2015/11/04, Lost Daughters — “Contrary to #FlipTheScript, #ShoutYourAdoption Is All About Shame” by Karen Pickell, adoptee and author

• 2013/02/12, The Declassified Adoptee — “Why Conflating Adoption and Abortion Isn’t Really Helping Anything” by Amanda Transue-Woolston, adoptee and social worker

• 2010/09/10, The Adopted Ones Blog — “The Abortion or Orphanage Comeback” by TAO, adoptee

Scholarly Articles

• 2017/03/01, Women’s Health Issues — “Adoption Decision Making among Women Seeking Abortion” by Gretchen Sisson

• 2012/02, Journal of Applied Philosophy — “Adoption Is Not Abortion-Lite” by Lindsey Porter