[supercat]

It does sound much better. Life sure can get complicated.

What's complicated, really? If I had my druthers, I'd set up a relatively simple adoption system: newborn babies go in one queue. Prospective adoptive parents go in another queue after some pre-screening. Then, as long as neither queue is empty, take the first item from each queue and pair them up.

It is abominable that despite the existence of waiting lists to adopt, many newborn babies still have to wait a long time to be adopted. I'm sure some liberals love that, but the reasons aren't ones I would consider legitimate:

1. The queues of babies awaiting adoption generate increased revenue for the agencies handling them.
2. The queues of babies awaiting adoption are used to justify abortion.
3. Blocking the adoption of black babies by white parents will help prevent the raising of black conservatives, who would be poison to liberals.
4. If black babies are left in queue while white babies are adopted, liberals can accuse white parents of racism, even if it's the liberals that block the adoptions.

My wife was adopted; I think her parents got her about a week after she was born (I'd have to check the home movies again to see if they give the exact date). Unfortunately, the media has persuaded many people that if they have an unwanted pregnancy it's more "responsible" to kill their baby than let someone else have it. Glad that wasn't the case in 1971.

[nobama08]

Promoting Adoption

In 1993, John McCain and his wife, Cindy, adopted a little girl from Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh. She has been a blessing to the McCain family and helped make adoption advocacy a personal issue for the Senator.

The McCain family experience is not unique; millions of families have had their lives transformed by the adoption of a child. As president, motivated by his personal experience, John McCain will seek ways to promote adoption as a first option for women struggling with a crisis pregnancy. In the past, he cosponsored legislation to prohibit discrimination against families with adopted children, to provide adoption education, and to permit tax deductions for qualified adoption expenses, as well as to remove barriers to interracial and inter-ethnic adoptions.

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71df58.htm