being an #adoptee who was taken from my birth mother because of a complete lack any of social provision enabling her to keep me, I think of the treatment meted out to her and latter-day birthmothers and try to remind myself that in the fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin was supposed to be the *villain*.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/post/3mgncl5ubdc2g
and yet we allow people with money and privilege to “help” a pregnant woman in crisis in exchange for her child, and we shrug our shoulders—or skip that part entirely and go directly to congratulating the happy couple for bringing a baby into their family