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To: utahagen
I concede that there may have been an agency, even several, that rebuffed this girl. But even if she had to travel a couple of hundred miles to find another agency, a black church, or a black family, she would have done that if she had wanted to have the baby and do the right thing. Plus, there are good people (black and white) you can turn to even in neighborhoods that seem unfriendly to minorities. For example, are we supposed to believe that if she'd gone to priest at a Catholic church -- or a minister at a Lutheran church, etc, -- she would have been turned away? I don't buy her story.

I mostly agree with you, although I think you overestimate the amount of resources the average college student has available to him or her. I am not sure I completely believe her story either- many of these abortion stories tend to be self-serving, assigning blame for the abortion on everyone else but the woman herself. It is likely what she said happened, but it is also likely that she feared that if she had the baby, people would find out a) she got pregnant out of wedlock and b) she had sex with a black guy.

98 posted on 02/03/2006 1:14:16 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: LWalk18

Also probably feared that her parents would yank her out of college if they found out. And I think we need to keep in mind how difficult information was to come by in the pre-Internet age. I wouldn't believe any college student today who said she could find an adoption agency willing to take a biracial baby off her hands (though she'd still have trouble finding one that could guarantee it would be promptly adopted), but 30-35 years ago, if you couldn't find something you needed in the yellow pages, you were out of options. In this woman's case, it appears that what she needed was an agency who would take her biracial baby immediately after its birth, without her parents ever finding out she'd been pregnant. That's why I don't find anything unbelievable about her story. Sure, she COULD be lying, but if she is, there are still plenty of women who werein her situation in that era who DID have the experience she described. Nobody here has any basis to be branding her a "liar".


101 posted on 02/03/2006 1:20:28 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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