NY Mag/ THE CUT - ‘People Say, You Sold Your Baby’

How Utah became the most exploitative state in private adoption.

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One day in early March, she drove to Layton to visit the rented apartments where Garza, Quick, and others house their pregnant clients. Mitchell and another UAR founder, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, who also directs public policy at the Californiabased nonprofit Ethical Family Building, had prepared flyers alerting pregnant women of their rights. Mitchell planned to slip them under doors. The first complex was eerily quiet, except for a heavily tattooed man in his 30s who stopped as Mitchell walked through a courtyard. “Who are you?” he said. “What are you doing here?”

A moment later, an older bearded man on a golf cart drove up. “What are you looking for?” he asked.

“My sisters,” Mitchell said as she strode toward one of the apartments, directing her gaze straight ahead. “Plenty to see here,” the second man said, driving off. “Plenty to see here.”