The Times - Inside Utah’s ‘human marketplace’ for adopted babies

Desperate women denied abortion access in much of the US are being offered a way out for the children they cannot raise themselves. It’s not always what it seems…

“The Times went out with Mitchell and Ranyard one morning in March as they distributed leaflets around Layton Meadows. The bright pink pamphlets included advice on a birth mother’s legal rights, such as “you have the right to change your mind about adoption and NOT pay anything back to the agency”.

The two women had themselves put babies up for adoption before later going on to start families of their own. Both were left traumatised by the circumstances of the placement, and hoped to arm women with the information they felt they had been deprived.”