Word: adoptionism
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Tranda Wecker, 28, has trouble making up her mind. She is a hotel receptionist from St. Louis, Mo., who gave birth last June to twins, to whom she gave the names Kiara and Keyara, after a character in Disney's Lion King II. At first she planned to raise them...
She says she found the Angel Heart adoption agency, run by Tina Johnson in San Diego, through the Yellow Pages. As a so-called adoption facilitator, Johnson makes money by matching parents who crave a child with mothers who can provide one. States regulate adoption differently, but 47 of them...
Then began a weird, seven-day, 1,500-mile car trip to Arkansas, which grants adoptions in as few as 10 days if all the birth and adoptive parents agree. When motel rooms were full, the Kilshaws, Wecker, her daughter Nolle and her twins all slept in a green Dodge...
Renown for his flair for publicity and a penchant for jogging suits, Sharpton is now pushing his own program of election reform, whose principal objectives are the adoption of a uniform standard for voting machines, vote-counting and voting roll purges.
Gun control During his Senate career, Ashcroft opposed nearly every gun control measure introduced by his colleagues, including a ban on assault rifles, according to Handgun Control, a gun control group based in Washington. His opponents note that Ashcroft was given an "A" rating by the National Rifle Association and...