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Life Defenders - A Birth Mom Explains Why Adoption Is Both Beautiful And Hard

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This week on Life Defenders we sit down with Janelle Basham Executive Director of Brave Love to talk about what adoption really looks like when you strip away the movie scripts and the online hot takes. We explore the love, the loss, the stigma, and the practical ethics that can make adoption life-giving or deeply harmful depending on how it’s handled.

Janelle shares her personal story of finding out she was pregnant at 16, weighing parenting and adoption, and living with the reality that adoption is both beautiful and hard. We discuss the language people…

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