BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.adoptionnetwork.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.1 0// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:069a2b43-eff2-401d-9e21-13e9a9a33d48 X-WR-CALDESC:Adoption/Abortion: Two Sides of One Coin or Two Different Coin s? presented by Laureen Harbert\, Lis Moriarty\, and Damon Davis\n\nThe go al of this important and timely discussion is to unpack and challenge:\n\n      1. The way that adoption and abortion are commonly conflated\,\n\n     2. The impact this conflation has on those touched by adoption\, and\n\n      3. The effect it has on people’s discourse and understanding of these two paths.\n\nThis presentation is not intended to discuss the ethical as pects or morality of either abortion or adoption.\n\nAbout Laureen Harbert \n\nLaureen Harbert is mom to an 11-year old boy adopted as a newborn in O hio. Both her professional and volunteer work have focused on issues of re productive justice and sexual health and education\, including pregnancy o ptions counseling\, abortion care\, HIV prevention and care\, and adoption education. She has authored numerous medical education and patient educat ion resources and is a co-author of the 2005 edition of Our Bodies\, Ourse lves. She loves listening to people’s life stories\, reading memoirs\, bei ng in the community\, and connecting with people.  She lives in Minneapoli s with her husband\, son\, and dog.\n\nAbout Lis Moriarty\n\nLis received  a crash course in what open adoption means when she made an adoption plan after an unexpected pregnancy. Since then\, she has spoken openly about he r adoption experience and how modern adoption looks in order to change soc iety's perception\, reduce stigma\, and educate others about open adoption . She serves on the Bellis MN Board of Directors. Lis is an Early Childhoo d Special Education Teacher\, lives with her husband and two children they are parenting together\, and is a birth mother in an open adoption since 2004.\n\nAbout Damon Davis\n\nDamon is an adoptee who was reunited with hi s biological mother in 2009 in a heartwarming story of coincidental histor y\, a mutual desire to be reunified\, and the pure luck to be able to surp rise his biological mother\, Ann\, for our reunion on her birthday! He is a storyteller at heart\, who enjoys hearing and sharing the real stories o f our lives that make each of us who we are.\n\nHe created the podcast\, W ho Am I Really to help people placed into adoption or who grew up in foste r care to explore their own emotions\, desires\, and questions about reuni ting with their biological family by asking others to share their true sto ries. Damon also wrote a memoir of the same name\, published in 2019.\n\nF ind out more about Damon and his podcast on his website at: http://www.who amireallypodcast.com/. X-WR-RELCALID:4a85f59f37f79bfdd252dcaece89253c X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20221106T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20220313T020000 RDATE:20230312T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22c3e710-aeda-46c7-a0f0-2559b73a1be3 DTSTAMP:20260527T221547Z DESCRIPTION:Adoption/Abortion: Two Sides of One Coin or Two Different Coins ? presented by Laureen Harbert\, Lis Moriarty\, and Damon Davis\n\nThe goa l of this important and timely discussion is to unpack and challenge:\n\n     1. The way that adoption and abortion are commonly conflated\,\n\n     2. The impact this conflation has on those touched by adoption\, and\n\n     3. The effect it has on people’s discourse and understanding of these two paths.\n\nThis presentation is not intended to discuss the ethical asp ects or morality of either abortion or adoption.\n\nAbout Laureen Harbert \n\nLaureen Harbert is mom to an 11-year old boy adopted as a newborn in O hio. Both her professional and volunteer work have focused on issues of re productive justice and sexual health and education\, including pregnancy o ptions counseling\, abortion care\, HIV prevention and care\, and adoption education. She has authored numerous medical education and patient educat ion resources and is a co-author of the 2005 edition of Our Bodies\, Ourse lves. She loves listening to people’s life stories\, reading memoirs\, bei ng in the community\, and connecting with people.  She lives in Minneapoli s with her husband\, son\, and dog.\n\nAbout Lis Moriarty\n\nLis received  a crash course in what open adoption means when she made an adoption plan after an unexpected pregnancy. Since then\, she has spoken openly about he r adoption experience and how modern adoption looks in order to change soc iety's perception\, reduce stigma\, and educate others about open adoption . She serves on the Bellis MN Board of Directors. Lis is an Early Childhoo d Special Education Teacher\, lives with her husband and two children they are parenting together\, and is a birth mother in an open adoption since 2004.\n\nAbout Damon Davis\n\nDamon is an adoptee who was reunited with hi s biological mother in 2009 in a heartwarming story of coincidental histor y\, a mutual desire to be reunified\, and the pure luck to be able to surp rise his biological mother\, Ann\, for our reunion on her birthday! He is a storyteller at heart\, who enjoys hearing and sharing the real stories o f our lives that make each of us who we are.\n\nHe created the podcast\, W ho Am I Really to help people placed into adoption or who grew up in foste r care to explore their own emotions\, desires\, and questions about reuni ting with their biological family by asking others to share their true sto ries. Damon also wrote a memoir of the same name\, published in 2019.\n\nF ind out more about Damon and his podcast on his website at: http://www.who amireallypodcast.com/. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220314T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220314T210000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Adoption/Abortion: Two Sides of One Coin or Two Different Coins? pr esented by Laureen Harbert\, Lis Moriarty\, and Damon Davis END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR