The Liberty Lost Podcast Investigates the World of Modern ‘Maternity Homes’
The idea of sending a pregnant person to maternity can look like a relic from the 1950s. But like the Lost liberty Podcast explains that these houses are still working today and may have an impact even more mothers and babies after the repeal of Roe c. Wade.
The Wondery investigation series, which was released last week, went bankrupt with its adhesive report on the Maison de la Déporin du Liberty, a maternity house for pregnant people operating on the Liberty University campus in Lynchburg, Virginia. Since 1982, the university house, which is one of the most powerful cultural institutions of the right -wing evangelical movement, has housed women with unplanned pregnancies. Some people can associate these types of installations in the over and horrible “baby scoop” era almost a century ago.
The household declares that the women they house have the choice of taking their child or not to give up the baby for adoption. But the women interviewed by the entertainment host and investigative journalist TJ Raphael say that they felt obliged to choose the adoption.
In response to the claims made in the podcast, the Liberty Godparent Foundation, which manages the house, says Charm Let him reject “the allegations of this tabloid podcast as irresponsible journalism designed to undermine this important work and minimize the importance and effectiveness of pro-life organizations”.
“Since 1982, the Liberty Godparent Foundation has supported hundreds of young women to offer accommodation, advice and educational resources that allow enlightened parenting and voluntary adoption with compassion and care,” the statement said. “Its vital role in the service of Central Virginia has been widely recognized for decades. Our employees and volunteers work tirelessly in this ministry and have made sure to be a voice of trust and ministry in the community. They treated each individual who asked for help with compassion and integrity. ”
But the podcast represents more than one maternity house. He calls into question all the American construction of adoption, asking difficult questions about how we consider birth or natural mothers, which “obtains” the parent in this country and the dismissal of the trauma that these mothers say they have been confronted after separating from their children.
The most important subject of the podcast, Abbi Johnson, attended the house in adolescence and gave birth to his son in 2008, describing on the podcast that she felt forced to give him up both by the staff of the house and his evangelical parents. Her experience led her to feel obliged to talk about the current trauma which she says was confronted by feeling obliged to give up her son, first sharing on social networks and then in the podcast. She says Charm Telling your story so publicly was “stimulating”.
“For me, living without access to my own child was so dehumanizing … It was a really painful experience all my life,” she said. “Not anonymous, being just myself, I felt like I had nothing to lose.”
