Shannon Paprocki gave a baby up for adoption when she was 17.
Shannon Paprocki gave birth to a baby boy when she was 17 and put him up for adoption.
She said it was a difficult decision that weighed on her for a long time.
She said that she was able to go back to school and have a career.
On January 6, 1989, Shannon Paprocki gave birth to a baby boy. She left the hospital without him. She decided to give him up for adoption when she was a junior in high school.
It wasn't an easy decision, but it was clear. She told Insider that she wanted more for herself and for the child. I knew it was the right decision but it was the most gut-wrenching thing.
Her milk arrived two weeks later. Her breasts were a constant reminder of what had happened.
She said she couldn't leave it behind. There were stretch marks on my belly. Everything was a constant reminder.
She said that the darkness was a lot. I didn't think about it every day.
Paprocki was shocked when Justice Amy ConeyBarrett suggested that women could have a baby and then give it up for adoption. The Supreme Court case that could overturn the landmark ruling on abortion rights in the United States was argued by Justice Barrett.
Paprocki was offended by the suggestion that adoption is an easy alternative to abortion.
Paprocki told Insider that she doesn't know if she's ever been exposed to a situation like this that makes her think a mom could just walk away and return to her normal life.
The suggestion that a woman could just go on with her life was upsetting to Paprocki. She said her case was lucky. Her parents were very supportive. There were no out-of-pocket costs for the pregnant woman, because they had good health insurance.
She said that she was able to go back to school and have a career. Many women wouldn't get out of debt. More than 28 million Americans did not have health insurance in 2020, and union jobs in the US have dropped six percentage points since 1988. A study by the American Public Health Association found that women who were denied abortions were more likely to experience years of economic hardship than women who were able to have the procedure.
Paprocki said it was hard to move on even without a financial strain. If you're not a robot, you won't. You're breathing and feeling human being. The child has made huge connections with you in the womb.
Most people who receive abortions don't consider adoptions as an alternative, according to a sociologist. She found that most women who finish a pregnancy go on to have a child. She said in a recent interview with New York Magazine that 18,000 babies are put up for adoption each year by people who don't feel like parenting.
Paprocki said she didn't consider getting an abortion because she was still processing the trauma of becoming pregnant.
She says she was raped by an older classmate in her small town. She didn't use birth control because she didn't want to have sex.
She said that she couldn't make a decision about getting an abortion because of her mind not being in the right place. I just couldn't.
"I kept living my life and hoping that it wasn't true, and put it in a separate box in my mind," Paprocki said. I'm a very strong, intelligent person, but it put me in a place where I didn't know who I was.
She was about five months pregnant when she finally told her parents.
The only other option was to carry the fetus to term. She said Lutheran Social Services helped arrange the adoption.
Paprocki didn't feel she could raise the baby at her young age, but she would have had the resources to do so. She said that her parents would have been fine. She wanted the baby to grow up in a home with two parents and she didn't want to be a burden on them.
Paprocki is married to a man who has been with her for 25 years. She has two children who are young.
The adoption is a chapter in her history that she draws strength from.
She left it open for her son to find her, and he did about five years ago. They have a good relationship. She said she would be there if he needed a transplant. I feel a mother's love for him.
We're supposed to produce children and leave? She said it was not that easy. "It's cruel"
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