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Please join us as we discuss Interlude "Coming to Terms" of the book Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer. In this episode, we talk about the debate over semantics that occurred at the beginning of the embryo "adoption" movement, and how it continues to shape peoples perspectives today. Mentioned in the show: Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice) - Kindle edition by Cromer, Risa. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. PCUSA: https://www.pcusa.org/news/2022/5/17/reproductive-justice-and-pcusa/ National Embryo Donation Center: National Embryo Donation Center Concerned United Birthparents: Bethany Christian Services: Concerned United Birthparents Saving our Sisters: Home - Saving Our Sisters (savingoursistersadoption.org) Bethany Christian Services | Bethany Discourse or semantic prosody: Semantic prosody - Wikipedia Ethnography: Ethnography | Definition, Types, Examples, & Facts | Britannica Semantics: Semantics Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster Kathryn Joyce, The Child Catchers: The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption: Joyce, Kathryn: 9781586489427: Amazon.com: Books Polite Adoption Language (PAL) Language developed by the adoption industry to make severing a child from family more palatable. Adopted people who object to the use of PAL are often reprimanded by people with a vested interest in the continuance of the system. Thank you for listening to the podcast! Any errors in relating the contents of the book are the hosts own. The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions. The host is not a lawyer, a therpaist or a fertility specialist.