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Elections Issues Affecting Women 2008: Adoption

21 September 2008 4 Comments

McCain

  • 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.
  • Does not support homosexual adoption.

Obama

  • Supports homosexual adoption.

4 Comments »

  • Stella said:

    Please see the link >

    http://about-orphans.blogspot.com

    # 22 September 2008 at 9:04 am
  • Mirah Riben said:

    Could you provide sources of these extrapolation of their polices on adoption?

    # 22 September 2008 at 1:38 pm
  • admin said:

    Hi Mirah,

    All sources can be found on this page:
    http://www.babybumpdiaries.com/election-issues-affecting-women/sources/

    But more specifically the places I found this information are:

    See “Promoting Adoption” on:
    http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71df58.htm

    And (this is a PDF linked from barackobama.com):
    http://obama.3cdn.net/795174956a7f432e93_4iiemv52b.pdf
    The page it is linked from is:
    http://pride.barackobama.com/page/content/lgbthome

    # 23 September 2008 at 7:06 am
  • Anna Glendenning said:

    McCain is also an adoptive parent… He adopted his step-children and later adopted Brigit.

    While I will admit that McCain is not my first choice It’s difficult to Not see the fact that he lives by the beliefs he professes and demonstrate the fact by his life history and personal associations.

    With well over 120,000 children currently WAITING in foster homes for permanent families in the United States we need leadership that will remember these children. Each year an estimated 18,000 children “age-out” of the foster care system left to go forward in their lives without the support of a family they can call their own. Often, these children parent one or more children. In many cases foster children today are second or third generation.

    It is time we have leadership that will not only promote the value of all human life–but, also pay some attention to those who are not old enough to Vote… The foster children waiting.

    Anna

    # 24 September 2008 at 9:01 am

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