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		<title>By: Suz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmm, on the race topic...in 1986 Kurtz ran a home for expectant mothers in GA. A friend of mine was there. One of the other girls was visited by a black man regularly. She was white. She insisted he was not the father and that the child she was carrying would be white. When she delivered, the baby was indeed biracial. The agency abandoned her and her child in the hospital, and demanded payment for all the monies that had spent on her during her stay in their home. Hospital bills were hers to pay as they were not interested in her biracial child. There was no market for such "product".

Go ahead, throw up. I did when I heard the story.  I wonde what happened to that mom and her child? Did another agency help her out?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm, on the race topic&#8230;in 1986 Kurtz ran a home for expectant mothers in GA. A friend of mine was there. One of the other girls was visited by a black man regularly. She was white. She insisted he was not the father and that the child she was carrying would be white. When she delivered, the baby was indeed biracial. The agency abandoned her and her child in the hospital, and demanded payment for all the monies that had spent on her during her stay in their home. Hospital bills were hers to pay as they were not interested in her biracial child. There was no market for such &#8220;product&#8221;.</p>
<p>Go ahead, throw up. I did when I heard the story.  I wonde what happened to that mom and her child? Did another agency help her out?</p>
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		<title>By: Why I&#8217;m too stupid to type today &#124; this woman's work</title>
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		<dc:creator>Why I&#8217;m too stupid to type today &#124; this woman's work</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Open Adoption Support       &#171; I can&#8217;t figure out the race stuff here [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Marley Greiner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marley Greiner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I found the PSA totally off the wall.  So far, I've only watched it once, but the race thing struck me, too,  I just hadn't articulated it.  You did a splendid job, Dawn!

I like to call NCFA Trotskyte.  That would have driven that old leftie Bill Pierce nuts.   (and Bill was indeed an old leftie). Adoption to NCFA and to the Donaldson as well, is about globalism.  Adam writes something in Adoption Natoin about how we can have world piece through adoption.  How can we hate the parents of our children.  Hmm...easy.

Anyway, they see adoption as part of a US globalist scheme to bring US culture to the rest of the poor stupid world while saving ibabies at the same time.  Sort of perpetual adoption for perpetual something or other.  There's a direct line between the Iraq War and international adoption, which I don't have time to get in to now.

On the domestic front, it's no longer about their phony war against abortion  They are horrified that women are keeping their babies.  NCFA, under Tom Atwood, who isn't as dumb as he sometimes acts, has developed a full marketing plan.  The PSA is only part of it.  Their whole Birth Mother Good Mother project is marketing adoption as a feel good alternative to a life of poverty and "other bad choices."  Tom was very eager last year for me to give the project a thumbs up!  He asked me to critique their GMBM book which I didn't yet.  Does her really want me to.? To accompany all this they have an intneractive propaganda program.  I have a copy of it, but they still don't have the funds to release it to the public. I expect they'll release it next November for National Adoption Month.  Last year they were still raising funds for its completion.  

I notice the new website and the propaganda video features ex-NCFA droid Courtney Lewis.  She testified against records access in Maine in 2006 without mentioning that she worked for NCFA.  She claimed to "speak for birthmothers."  Well, Courtney had "no issues with her adoption, yet broke down in tears in the middle fo the testimony.   A total meltdown. It was really quite horrible.  She told me later that she didn't agree with everything NCFA preached.  I found her on MySpace a few months ago.  She left WDC and NCFA and is now a massage therapist.

You can order the GMBM booklet from NCFA.  I believe you can also download it from the Family Research Council's webpage for free.  The book was co-sponsored by them, so that gives you an idea of what's behind this. 

I've gotta go, but there's more to say about this book.  It's very dangerous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found the PSA totally off the wall.  So far, I&#8217;ve only watched it once, but the race thing struck me, too,  I just hadn&#8217;t articulated it.  You did a splendid job, Dawn!</p>
<p>I like to call NCFA Trotskyte.  That would have driven that old leftie Bill Pierce nuts.   (and Bill was indeed an old leftie). Adoption to NCFA and to the Donaldson as well, is about globalism.  Adam writes something in Adoption Natoin about how we can have world piece through adoption.  How can we hate the parents of our children.  Hmm&#8230;easy.</p>
<p>Anyway, they see adoption as part of a US globalist scheme to bring US culture to the rest of the poor stupid world while saving ibabies at the same time.  Sort of perpetual adoption for perpetual something or other.  There&#8217;s a direct line between the Iraq War and international adoption, which I don&#8217;t have time to get in to now.</p>
<p>On the domestic front, it&#8217;s no longer about their phony war against abortion  They are horrified that women are keeping their babies.  NCFA, under Tom Atwood, who isn&#8217;t as dumb as he sometimes acts, has developed a full marketing plan.  The PSA is only part of it.  Their whole Birth Mother Good Mother project is marketing adoption as a feel good alternative to a life of poverty and &#8220;other bad choices.&#8221;  Tom was very eager last year for me to give the project a thumbs up!  He asked me to critique their GMBM book which I didn&#8217;t yet.  Does her really want me to.? To accompany all this they have an intneractive propaganda program.  I have a copy of it, but they still don&#8217;t have the funds to release it to the public. I expect they&#8217;ll release it next November for National Adoption Month.  Last year they were still raising funds for its completion.  </p>
<p>I notice the new website and the propaganda video features ex-NCFA droid Courtney Lewis.  She testified against records access in Maine in 2006 without mentioning that she worked for NCFA.  She claimed to &#8220;speak for birthmothers.&#8221;  Well, Courtney had &#8220;no issues with her adoption, yet broke down in tears in the middle fo the testimony.   A total meltdown. It was really quite horrible.  She told me later that she didn&#8217;t agree with everything NCFA preached.  I found her on MySpace a few months ago.  She left WDC and NCFA and is now a massage therapist.</p>
<p>You can order the GMBM booklet from NCFA.  I believe you can also download it from the Family Research Council&#8217;s webpage for free.  The book was co-sponsored by them, so that gives you an idea of what&#8217;s behind this. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve gotta go, but there&#8217;s more to say about this book.  It&#8217;s very dangerous.</p>
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		<title>By: Jen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This whole thing reminds me of something I read from, of all people, an Australian social worker.  She said something along the lines of, "The adoption industry has become more about helping needy adults than helping needy kids."

Once again, that phrase rings true.
Food for thought, definitely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This whole thing reminds me of something I read from, of all people, an Australian social worker.  She said something along the lines of, &#8220;The adoption industry has become more about helping needy adults than helping needy kids.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once again, that phrase rings true.<br />
Food for thought, definitely.</p>
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		<title>By: PhoenixRising</title>
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		<dc:creator>PhoenixRising</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, whoever said it above is right: First think audience, then think message.

The NCA's paying customers want to see, Hey, the baby might look white! So that's the message. Whatever the pregnant woman feels is not their concern.

&lt;i&gt;I used to take my little cousin out a lot and everyone assumed she was mine and the dissaproving looks and comments I got were horrible.&lt;/i&gt;

I was a mere pup when we adopted. The stigma and attempts to convey shame on me--which never works, I get it a few weeks later that I was supposed to be embarrassed 'cause I'm &lt;strike&gt;a little Aspie-spectrum&lt;/strike&gt; far too independent-minded to care what anyone thinks of me--were astonishing.

It was all about the miscegenation, folks. Young mom, racially ambiguous child, oh my goodness that girl must have gotten herself pregnant by a...by one of THOSE people!

What was silly was that my cousin got the same thing when she chose to raise her child. She was 23! and a college graduate! But somehow the deficit of an Official Penis-Bearing American in her home made her unfit to parent. And also, she's lucky he came out so light.

Grr.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, whoever said it above is right: First think audience, then think message.</p>
<p>The NCA&#8217;s paying customers want to see, Hey, the baby might look white! So that&#8217;s the message. Whatever the pregnant woman feels is not their concern.</p>
<p><i>I used to take my little cousin out a lot and everyone assumed she was mine and the dissaproving looks and comments I got were horrible.</i></p>
<p>I was a mere pup when we adopted. The stigma and attempts to convey shame on me&#8211;which never works, I get it a few weeks later that I was supposed to be embarrassed &#8217;cause I&#8217;m <strike>a little Aspie-spectrum</strike> far too independent-minded to care what anyone thinks of me&#8211;were astonishing.</p>
<p>It was all about the miscegenation, folks. Young mom, racially ambiguous child, oh my goodness that girl must have gotten herself pregnant by a&#8230;by one of THOSE people!</p>
<p>What was silly was that my cousin got the same thing when she chose to raise her child. She was 23! and a college graduate! But somehow the deficit of an Official Penis-Bearing American in her home made her unfit to parent. And also, she&#8217;s lucky he came out so light.</p>
<p>Grr.</p>
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