New York Times guest essay rips Amy Coney Barrett for suggesting adoption during SCOTUS abortion ban case

Democratic strategist Elizabeth Spiers argues adoption is 'often just as traumatic as the right thinks abortion is, if not more so.'

In a piece published Friday titled "I Was Adopted. I Know the Trauma It Can Inflict," Democratic strategist Elizabeth Spiers began by paraphrasing Barrett's inquiry, "Why was abortion necessary, when women who do not want to be mothers can simply give their babies up for adoption?"

"As an adoptee myself, I was floored by Justice Barrett’s assumption that adoption is an accessible and desirable alternative for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant," Spiers wrote. "She may not realize it, but what she is suggesting is that women don’t need access to abortion because they can simply go do a thing that is infinitely more difficult, expensive, dangerous and potentially traumatic than terminating a pregnancy during its early stages."