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Adoption: Giving It All Away?
Seattle
Kathryn Joyce got it right in "Shotgun Adoption" [Sept. 14]. I am a partial victim of the crisis pregnancy centers. As a young unwed mother with no outside support, I turned to New Hope here in Seattle. They counseled me with one option: an open adoption so my son would have a life I couldn't provide. But the "open adoption/access to my son/co-parenting" was essentially a closed adoption. What I found out later was I had no legal rights to my son.
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