[tiamat]

cgk wrote:

I would have. No doubts at all, and I am speaking truthfully from my heart. And I would not be considered a viable candidate for adoption, though I would have been considered a viable candidate for being aborted. I have MS.

My best girlfriend has MS as well. Like you, she has a loving, truly godly heart.

Here in Michigan, we had a case in Ann arbor that was heart-breaking. couple adopted a child from the Pacific Northwest and then moved here.
Three years later, Birth-Mom ( an unmarried substance abuser with a dubious boyfriend) shows up and says, "I've changed my mind".
The couple, and the little girl, were devestated and the spinless judge in the case allowed the child to be taken. AWFUL footage of crying little girl being loaded ibnto car to be sent off with strangers. I cried all night watching it.

I made it a point to vote against that judge when the time came, over that issue.

Adoption laws here need to be loosened up, and they need to be iron-clad to prevent this sort of thing.

Tia

[cgk]

I completely agree with your entire post. How many children are in foster homes when they could be adopted out to loving, childless families? How many children are adopted by those families when given up by their birth mothers, only to have the mother come back and ask for the child when she is done "living her life" the way she wanted to - without strings or responsibilities? It's a tragedy.