Lindsay Walters and Teri Walters
Recorded
September 1, 2014
41:24 minutes
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Id:
mby012548
Description
Teri Walters (56) and her daughter Lindsay Walters (35) share how Lindsay decided to opt for adoption when she became pregnant with her daughter.Subject Log / Time Code
Teri asks Lindsay about her move to New York. She says she could tell she wasn't ready to move but helped her packed up.
Brian and Lindsay decided she would get off the pill, they did not expect to get pregnant so soon but she became pregnant soon after. They share the phone call when Lindsay told Brian.
Lindsay came home to visit, when she got back to New York everything had changed, she was not happy, Brian told her to go back home and have an abortion. Lindsay says she felt very alone and considered the abortion but had to tell her mother.
Teri says she had an abortion when she was a young woman and if she could do it again she would have explored her options. She asked Lindsay to consider all the options and go ahead with her ultrasound. After Lindsay saw her daughter in the ultrasound she felt she had the best gift inside of her.
Lindsay tells how Brian and his mother and aunt sent her back to Michigan and packed her life up and put her on a greyhound.
Lindsay describes deciding on adoption, the birth of her daughter Violet and her founding of a birth mother's support group.
Participants
- Lindsay Walters
- Teri Walters