Abolition of Identicide (Adoption): a neologism to name the abolitionist framework against the erasure of identity

Abstract: The term Abolition of Identicide, coined by Olmo Gómez Aldaz in 2025, is an abolitionist development of the author’s earlier concept Identicide, and is proposed as a neologism to name the ethical, political, and epistemic framework from which the abolition of all institutional forms of identity destruction is conceived. The expression identicide defines the deliberate suppression of biological and symbolic filiation through legal, religious, or social mechanisms, among which modern adoption represents its paradigmatic form. In this sense, Abolition of Identicide (Adoption) designates the moral and political response to that structural crime: the need to dismantle the adoptive system as a device of genealogical erasure and fictitious restitution of origin. The text develops the philosophical foundations of adoptive abolitionism, articulating the concepts of truth, filiation, and memory against the narratives of charity, salvation, or destiny that legitimize the destruction of identity. To name the Abolition of Identicide is to recognize adoption as a form of structural violence —an institutional practice of identicide— and to situate its abolition not merely as a legal demand but as an ontological necessity: the right to be, to remember, and to belong to one’s own genealogy.