Liberty Lost

Wow—I just finished Liberty Lost and ended up subscribing to Wondery just so I could listen to the entire series. This was an absolutely incredible production. It’s so timely and deeply relevant. It’s heartbreaking to see that young people are still being caught up in this adoption crisis. I truly appreciate how thoroughly the topic was explored and the powerful, detailed accounts from some of those who experienced life in Godparents’ Homes. Honestly, Forever Scarred would have been a fitting title, too, as those who told their stories in this podcast remain as traumatized today as they were while in those Homes.

As a parent you have a responsibility to do what’s best for your child. No job, no education, no father but you want to the tax paying dollars to pay for your child. You are upset that tax payer dollars are paying for pregnancy homes but think it’s ok for teenagers to receive money to raise their child like it is everyone’s else’s responsibility to raise their child. Also, you act like every home is awful. Do you know this for fact? Do you think every pregnancy resource center is bad too? Have you interviewed any mothers who entered homes and had good things to say? You act like every single female that went thru a home is tortured and forced to give up their baby. Are there any success stories? What makes you think women who give birth and cannot understand their rights and are so easily coerced as you said are smart enough or responsible enough to raise and care for a human life? Instead of constantly blaming these homes, oh and blaming religion let’s step back and look at the parents that forced their girls into them. Also, bringing up Roe is a mute point. It has nothing to do with this. Acting like overturning Roe is forcing every pregnant teen into a home is such misinformation. You all act like killing babies is a more justifiable business than adoption. Thats pretty dark. Plus, don’t even know anything about the overturning of Roe? You act like Roe made all abortions illegal. That too is misinformation that you are spewing. Is it an awful thing what happened to the 3 women you interviewed? Yes! Of course! However, 3 out of the thousands that has went thru maternity homes hardly seems like a crisis.

This is a biased story that discredits the stories of the many women who had positive experiences that voluntarily pursued making adoption plans, for a variety of reasons, and felt encouraged and empowered by the staff during that process. This discredits the stories of birth parents that have beautiful open communication with the adoptive families they chose to raise their children. This also creates a false narrative for adopted persons whose birth parent may have once been a resident and risks the possibility of impacting their identity in a negative way. I would encourage listeners to do their own research on this before believing all that was shared in this podcast.

You pick one person that has ill intentions and bias opinion filled with inaccuracies. All for attention?!