About
Reproductive Justice in Adoption (RJiA) is a collective co-founded by eight people who are directly impacted by systems of family regulation and separation. We are birth/first parents, formerly-fostered people, adopted people, or some combination of these. We came together shortly after the fall of Roe v. Wade, knowing that this necessarily meant more pregnant people would have to consider adoption. As people directly impacted by the adoption industry and family separation, we aim to dramatically increase bodily autonomy and self-determination, as well as reduce harm, for this largely invisibilized population of pregnant people through education, information, resource building, and peer support.
RJiA understands the multi-billion dollar adoption industry as interlocking and overlapping with other systems of family regulation and separation including the family policing system (so called “child welfare”), as well as the prison, policing, immigration, and military industrial complexes. RJiA stands in solidarity with and works to build coalition with other movements for the liberation of all families and people.
While individual collective members use a range of language to describe their political commitments, RJiA is an abolitionist project. Our work is focused on building life-affirming, community-based supports that do not engage with carceral systems. We do not partner with or support policy, practices, or entities that replicate, reinforce, or expand the power and harms of the existing adoption, family regulation, and family policing systems.