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The Experiences of Natural Mothers
 

A Call to Natural Mothers

  Adoption Coercion Across Canada - a compilation of true personal stories
  Civil Rights Crimes in Adoption, by Dian Wellfare
  Common Coercion Methods - were you coerced?
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Did They Forbid You from Seeing Your Baby? NEW!

  "Unwed Mothers" Policy: MEDICAL ASSAULT: . These drugs were not administered as usual procedure in a normal delivery to married women. What it constitutes is medical assault.
  Mothers Bill of Rights - the rights you may have been denied
  "Not by Choice" by Karen Wilson Buterbaugh
  Open Records: A Motherhood Issue by Bryony Lake
  Proof of Coercion: In the Adoption Industry's Own Words.
 
"Rapid Adoptions": Stillborn or Stolen? This article is from Australia, but could it have happened in Canada as well?
Adoption: Reproductive Exploitation by Bryony Lake and Jessica Del Balzo
 
The Experiences of Adoptees
  Adoptees and Depression, by Mark Walter
  Divide and Rule, By Stephen Fitzpatrick
  Fooled By Desire, by Tricia Shore
  Baby Adoption - The Goal of the Broker is Money, by Anne Patterson
  Growing Up Adopted, by Sheri Sexton
  Happy Adoptees, by Julie A. Rist
  Parapettio - Our Awakening, by Mark Walter
  Adoptees and Natural Mothers - The Respect We Never Got, by Joe Soll, CSW
  Adopted 'Child' - Waking Up, by Julie A. Rist
  Considering Adoption? What Baby Brokers Won't Tell You About Adoptees and the Truth, by Anne Patterson
  Why We Would Want to be Adopted Back By Our Parents - An Adoptee's View, by Mark Walter
 
Adoption-Separation Trauma
  Adoption & Loss: The Hidden Grief, by Evelyn Robinson, MSW
  Dr. Rickarby's Testimony - 1
  Dr. Rickarby's Testimony - 2
  Dr. Rickarby's Testimony - 3
  Adoption Reproductive Choice or Exploitation?, By Laurie Frisch
  Human Rights Abuses in Adoption, By Mary E. MacDonald
  Not By Choice by Karen Wilson Buterbaugh
  Resources
  Scarred by Adoption, by Jennifer Doane
  What They Knew and Didn't Tell Us
 
About Adoption in Canada:
  Adoption Coercion Across Canada - a compilation of true personal stories
  Adoption vs. Abortion Myths, By Laurie Frisch
  'Choosing' Adoption - Something in the Water?, By Anne Patterson
  Common Coercion Methods
  Comparison: North America vs. Australia, by Evelyn Robinson, MSW
  "Ethics" of the Canadian Adoption Industry: Bribery and Lies! By Cathy Henderson
  Honest Adoption Language
  How Adoption Grew Secret by Elizabeth Samuels
  Human Rights Abuses in Adoption By Mary E. MacDonald
  Infant Adoption: Big Business (PDF file), by Darlene Gerow (reprinted from the CUB Communicator with permission)
  A Mothers’ Bill of Rights
  Not By Choice!, by Karen Wilson Buterbaugh
  Open Adoption = Modern-Day Coercion
  Questionnaire 2004/2005
  "Should I Look At My Baby?"
  The "Birthwhore" Myth - why the prejudice.
 

Using Language that Respects People Who Have Lost Family to Adoption: A Short Summary of Honest Adoption Language by Bryony Lake

  Why "Birthmother" Means BREEDER, by Diane Turski
   
Open Records
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  British Columbia
  Charter of Adoptee Rights
  Facts
  Model Open Records Legislation
  Newfoundland and Labrador
  Ontario
  Open Records: A Motherhood Issue
Status Report - which provinces have open records and which don't.
   
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  : "Adoption is Not the Answer", The Star
   
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