On Sunday, the Lee Enterprises Des Moines Bureau examined a pattern in Sioux City in which pregnant women relocate from across the country to the same apartment complex on Glen Oaks Boulevard, planning to place their children for adoption. The women’s rent and other expenses are paid by the prospective adoptive parents through their lawyers, though some of the women use food stamps and Medicaid.
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Kilmer’s story illustrates the emotional strain of relocating a pregnant woman for an adoption. And it also shows how easy it is for any woman to enter into an adoption plan — a plan that, in this case, has led to heartbreak for Kilmer and the Nebraska couple who hoped to adopt her child.
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“We turn real-live, flesh-and-blood women into baby-making machines who are supposed to give us their products and go away. Well, that’s not acceptable on a human level and not acceptable on a practical level,” said Adam Pertman, an author and executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute in New York.
