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Thanks. The race argument she makes IS absurd. I don't believe there is any such thing as an unadoptable baby (assuming that it can be cared for by parents of normal resources--some babies, obviously, can't.) I think there is only too much red tape in the adoption process...and racism, lots and lots of racism built into it. How can it be better for mixed-parentage children to go to foster homes instead of adoptive homes, in the interest of trying to match melanin levels???

Colin Powell is pretty darn light skinned. Condaleeza Rice has light features. I'd say that any barriers that once existed have fallen most places (not all.) You can be whatever you want to be, whatever your heritage, in this country. If you're disabled, there are laws in place that make it possible to be a lawyer, to afford to be cared for so that you stay alive, comfortable, and functioning. These things are only possible if our society stays extremely wealthy. She won't live long if that changes.

If she really thought things through, she'd become a conservative, because the compassion that lets her survive and thrive comes from wealth.

People sometimes put up defenses to hide what they really feel. I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Mike Savage is a deist because of what he's seen in pediatric cancer wards. People, esp. like this woman, want to know why God let these things happen. The easiest way to solve that problem is to say God doesn't exist.

I feel sorry for her. She'd be toast in Iraq, or any other radical militant islam country. She's alive because she's in the richest country in the world that was based on judeo-christian values of compassion for the infirm.