Birthmother's Day - Bleeeagh!
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Just thinking about the upcoming Mother's Day - the day we all honor our Mothers. Then while surfing the web I ran into something called "Birthmother's Day". Well, I hate to say this but Moms even if your child has been adopted-out YOU ALREADY HAVE A DAY. You ARE a Mother. You are no less than a Mother. You deserve to be honored AS A MOTHER.

Those who believe a Mother is LESS than a Mother deserve to be kicked in the ASS with force that will send them into outerspace in nanoseconds.

Those Mothers who believe they are only "birthmothers" (aka "birth things" or incubators) are WRONG. You can be an ex-wife, or a widow but you can never be an ex-mother.

If Pro-Life people call you a "Birthmother" (an ex-mother-birth-thing) then SHAME on them. They patted themselves on the back when your child was adopted, claiming THEY had saved your unborn child from an abortion. But they could have provided you a little help to raise your child. They could have helped, instead of taking advantage of you at a vulnerable moment.

"Birthmother's Day" honors women as incubators, a source of babies for adoption. Now we have people suggesting that ANIMALS be used as incubators to get babies for infertile people to use. Well, what's the difference? Moms who have their babies taken for adoption are being treated like they are less than human. According to people like Thomas Atwood of National Council For Adoption (NCFA) Moms are glad to be "rid of" their "unwanted" children.

Thomas Atwood, if you are ever facing a temporary financial situation, should we suggest that you "do the right thing" and hand your children over to someone who has "a lot of love to give"? If they are not really your children, maybe you would be OK with that. But making a mom hand over her own child is extremely cruel.

But then, the Mom has "Birthmother's Day" to make up for the horrendous loss of her child. It's enough to bring a tear to my eye!

On this so-called "Birthmother's Day" I hope those persons who have promoted government programs designed to get more babies for people to adopt stop and reflect on the horror of it: USING women and then giving them a separate Mother's Day to emphasize your distain for them.

Birthmother's Day celebrations, Birthmother's Day poetry, Birthmother's Day parties, Birthmother's Day cards....it seems like Mom can have ANYTHNG she wants except for the joy of raising her own child.

In Rebuttal of the idea that Birthmother's Day honors mothers by Josee Larose

Another article opposed to Birthmother's Day by Bryony Lake

It's a tragedy whan a mother does not recieve the help she needs to keep family members together. This is nothing to celebrate. A Mother should not be honored as a "birth thing" - a MEMORIAL DAY to reflect on the tragedy of all the family separations to get babies for adoption would be more fitting.

"Birthmothers" - PLEASE recognize that you are Mothers by Nature and always will be. Honor yourselves as Mothers. Call yourselves "Mothers" not "Birthmothers" (aka "Birth things") - and insist that everyone else calls you a Mother or Natural Mother, too.

Just because your child's father - and society - has abandoned you does not make you less of a Mom.