Word: adoptionism
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New Jersey, Vermont and half a dozen other states permit a lesbian to adopt her lover's child and become a second parent. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did so last Friday, allowing surgeons Susan Love and Helen Cooksey to adopt the five-year-old girl they have raised since...
The show begins right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The...
It is also apparent that Edward has never made an attempt to discover what takes place in an abortion counseling session. Abortion is not presented as the only choice, but one of several choices. Choices which do include bringing the fetus to term and then keeping it or giving it...
A statement released by the Department of Labor called it "a working session that will help define the shape of the workplace of the future, identify the benefits of the new workplace and barriers to adoption and discuss public and private strategies for encouraging its implementation."
What about adoption as a "choice?" I have yet to see "pro-choice" activists trying to convince frightened mothers-to-be (or not) to have the child and give it up for adoption. And the baby-in-progress is not being given much of a "choice." No one is polling...