Smoky Mountain Sorcery

Tag: SCOTUS

  • The “Domestic Supply of Infants” and “Pro-Life” Thinking

    I was adopted as an infant. Relinquished at birth and placed at 7 weeks. My family was open about this from the beginning, and one of my very earliest memories was being told that I was adopted. But I was also told that I was an only child because of Roe v Wade. “Your daddy…

  • This Was Always Gonna Happen

    So SCOTUS is gonna overturn Roe v Wade, and a lot of folks out there are shocked. If I had $1 for everyone on Twitter who’s take was “bUt ThEy’Ll LoSe ThE FuNdRaIsInG IsSuE!” I could cancel student loans. This is clearly difficult for some left-of-center folks to understand, but the right wing doesn’t actually…

  • Sorry, Amy Coney Barrett: Adoption is NOT The Answer To Abortion

    As an adoptee, I’ve known from a young age that I could have been aborted. When I was gestating in 1970, North Carolina was one of the few states that already allowed abortion in limited circumstances (danger to mother’s health, rape, incest or likely damaged fetus.) As my birth sister explained it, my mother was…