“Risk” — A Must-Read from Mei-Ling

http://exiledsister.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/risk/

“I risk a lot of backlash in telling this story. I risk receiving comments of disbelief, people who don’t believe anything is wrong with the ethics in this story, people who believe that having me be adopted on the basis that my adoptive parents were the only ones who could pay the bill is justified and moral, people who can’t consider that my mother’s decision wasn’t really a choice after all, people who have never had to imagine what “desperation” of a choice really is.”

One Response to “Risk” — A Must-Read from Mei-Ling

  1. Hey Cedar: thanks for turning me on to this post by Mei-Ling.

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