It is all well and good, as TomPaine.com does in its Feb. 19 blast at President Bush, to go after a political opponent. That would be fair, if it were based on fact. But the regulations being changed impact no families, adoptive or otherwise, because not a single state chose to implement them. To criticize President Bush for an action that impacts no one, and that supposedly discourages people from having children, as the Feb. 19 article does, is phony. Especially when the group has a track record of promoting abortion and criticizing President Bush for his pro-life stands. Consider this paragraph from the Feb. 19, 2003 TomPaine.com and its pro-natalist spin: Furthermore, paid leave is a family-friendly policy that recognizes the staggering burdens that so many Americans face in …
There has been general agreement from those across the ideological and political spectrum that Florida’s new law requiring women to publish the details of their sexual resumes if they want to place a baby through private adoption should be changed. But now, in an Aug. 22 column in The Washington Times, Dianna Thompson and Glen Sacks claim that the law makes sense because a father has a right to raise his child, an adopted child must have complete knowledge of the medical and genetic background of his father to get proper medical care and many adopted adults will want to seek out their biological fathers. Old and weak arguments, to be sure, when weighed against requiring a woman who may have had a one-time sexual relationship that resulted in pregnancy to publish details that she would …
Many in the adoption community are expressing serious concerns about the Bush administration serving up a warmed-over Clinton-era adoption-from-foster-care project, an act that inspired the Washington Post and Clinton’s Rasputin, Dick Morris, to say that President Bush was borrowing from the Clinton script. The concerns arose following the ballyhooed July 23 announcement that First Lady Laura Bush and actor Bruce Willis have collaborated on a public-service ad to promote the National Adoption Center’s 800 number and website in hopes that more children marooned in the foster-care system might be considered for adoption. Willis’s fame is sure to make fingers pause over the mute button and Laura Bush’s authentic warmth is a nice balance. It’s just too bad …
