![]() ![]() Her subsequent work has chronicled the stories of these child-surrendering mothers. Ann began to consider the possible emotional and physical consequences to the original mother of giving up a child. Then, in 1989, Ann attended an art event where she was approached by a woman who thought Ann might be the biological daughter she’d given up 40 years earlier. However, well into her adulthood, she’d thought little about the perspective of the woman who’d relinquished her for adoption shortly after Ann was born. ![]() Her adoptive parents loved her and nurtured her to adulthood. Wade.Īnn Fessler is a visual artist and author born in 1949. I wanted to re-inform myself about women’s options before the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. ![]() One or more related cases will be argued before the U.S. Publicity is mounting about increasingly restrictive abortion laws in some states. I’d recently done an online search for books, either fiction or non-fiction, about the ongoing abortion debate in the United States. ![]() Few books have hit me with the emotional wallop of Ann Fessler’s 2006 study, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. ![]()
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