Does International Adoption Hurt Women Outside the US?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}Is adoption a feminist issue? Does it pit adoptive mother against birth mother and create a hierarchy of who’s fit and who’s unfit to be a mother? Is international adoption a form of sanctioned social injustice that impedes the rights and freedoms of women in other countries? These are the controversial questions that Katie Leo grapples with in “Feminist lens on adoption” at the Minnesota Women’s Press website. This issue is intensely personal to Leo; she was adopted from Korea before she was a year old. Today, struggling with the pain of her own infertility, she had been considering an international adoption until she began to read the work of feminist authors, adoptees, activists, and others who see a disconnect in the reasoning of feminists
