An article published on December 9, 2018 by the New York Times, written by Christina Caron, tells the story of a mother who reunites with her daughter who she thought had died 70 years ago. Connie Moultroup, 69, took an Ancestry.com DNA test that had led her to her cousin, who then led her to her birth mother. They had a tearful reunion and discovered they had much in common, including their looks. When Genevieve Purinton gave birth when she was 18 in 1949, she had been told her baby girl had died. Her signature was found on adoption papers, and she remembered signing something but she did not know what they were for. At the time, many babies were being forced away from their parents and put into adoption for profit. This reunion and its circumstances can be linked to the decision of Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion. Before then, young women were forced to give up their newborn children because of the stigma around having children out of wedlock and as a young girl. Ms. Purinton had been parted with her daughter because of how others felt about her life, and she was not the only one to have gone through this.
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