adoption
In her new book, Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America, Ellen Lewin investigates the nuances of gay adoption and describes the many challenges gay men face—from the “family values” Right as much as from the “radical queer” Left—as they actively seek to become parents.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 13, 2009 - 10:05am
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a package of legislation focused on expanding and promoting adoption opportunities and increasing services for children in California’s foster care system, reports California Newswire.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 6, 2009 - 4:29pm
Following on to Kathryn Joyce's piece on Crisis Pregnancy Centers and adoption today on RH Reality Check (in which Joyce points to Bethany Adoption center as an example), Sarah Posner reports today in the American Prospect that in addition to other federal money, Bethany has recieved 8 federal grants totalling over $3 million in 2009.
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The National Abortion Federation estimates that as many as 4,000 CPCs operate in the United States, often using deceptive tactics like posing as abortion providers and showing women graphic antiabortion films. While there is growing awareness of how CPCs hinder abortion access, the centers have a broader agenda that is less well known: they seek not only to induce women to "choose life" but to choose adoption, either by offering adoption services themselves, as in Bethany's case, or by referring women to Christian adoption agencies. Far more than other adoption agencies, conservative Christian agencies demonstrate a pattern and history of coercing women to relinquish their children.
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Reader diary posted by Amyadoptee September 4, 2009 - 10:48am
CPC's are not just right wing or left wing. It crosses both sides of the fence. Adoption is not the panacea of abortion.
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Three themes repeated in today's news: abortion and health reform, reactions to the Ryan-DeLauro bill and calls for "common ground," and same sex adoption.
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Common ground discussions on abortion have been pervaded by an eagerness to judge and an unwillingness to understand the complex reasons women choose abortion over childbirth when faced with an unintended pregnancy.
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Amy Hagstrom Miller talks about providing abortion after the resurgence of domestic terrorism. Also: Mark Sanford, and Saletan and Waldman terrify on their discussion on Bloggingheads.
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Those who support a woman's right to choose and those who oppose it should be able to work together to forge common ground for policies that make adoption a genuine choice.
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