Posted by ( Chris ) on February 27, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Uninformed??????? Really?????

Here is the breakdown. 1
“There are between one and two million infertile and fertile couples and individuals who would like to adopt children. According to a survey by the National Council For Adoption (NCFA) there were 54,492 unrelated adoptions (adoptions by people not related to the child adopted) of American children in 1996.” (NCFA)

O.K. fine. There are around 1.4 million abortions each year. Let us assume that all the aborted babies were not aborted and scooped up by these couples. What happens the following year??????? Are you suggesting that each year there will be enough couples around wanting to adopt to cover the number of abortions? You might solve the abortion issue through adoption for one year and then after that a question of what to do with unwanted children remains legitimate. Obviously the easiest rebuttal would be to say that if aboriton were to become illegal then the number of unwanted babies would decrease and be in tune with the number of couples wanting to adopt. I guess one could look to numbers of children without homes before abortion became legal to debunk that. Adoption was not the “answer” then nor is it now. It is a viable alternative but to indicate that the NCO’s argument is a non argument defies logic.

“Babies, regardless of medical problems, who are “free for adoption,"generally do not wait long for families. There are waiting lists of couples who would like to adopt infants with Down Syndrome or Spina Bifida. The A K.I.D.S. Exchange reports that they have over 100 approved families waiting to adopt children with Down Syndrome. There are also a large number of couples who would like to adopt terminally ill babies, including babies with AIDS. ABC-TV’s “20/20” reported that they had received over 25,000 self-addressed stamped envelopes from individuals wanting to adopt Romanian orphans. Over 10,000 people contacted NCFA after Parade Magazine’s August 2, 1998, cover story on transracial adoption.” (NCFA)

It just seems rather presumptive to believe that if regulations were relaxed then by miracle all waiting children would be adopted as well as in the future. There are much more complex issues at work here than to simplify it the way you have here Jody Lee. You really need to research the reality which race plays in adoption along with a myriad of other realities before making such broad and generalized non arguments.