As to adoption, I’d think twice about adopting if I knew the law was going to leave the birth mother (and quite likely the biological father) some residual “rights” to the child.
Not to mention social services and the adoption agency. These days it’s hard to adopt a puppy, never mind a baby, and it’s often so conditional you can never be confident of your status or your rights.
The law is making a frankenstein monster of the traditional family, and it isn’t just the law legalizing abortion.
“As to adoption, I’d think twice about adopting if I knew the law was going to leave the birth mother some residual “rights”....”
That is why it was and is common for couples to foreign adopt. In our group, everyone did their research. They looked into open adoptions and felt that they wanted a child to be 100% theirs. For example, some of the contracts stipulate that the birth mother get visitation or two weeks during the summer. Also, everyone was fully aware that if the paperwork didn’t have every t crossed and i dotted... that social services could show up at the doorstep. Your two year old, four year old... any age.. could be taken “back”. Foreign countries made it darn clear that once you signed for this child, he or she was yours for life.