Curious
The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre- and post-natal health care, parenting skills, income support and caring adoption programs.
from Bloomberg.com: News
So do adoption groups ever endorse politicians? I’m curious if they look to anyone — like Evan B. Donaldson or (ahem) the NCFA — to get behind this stuff. Because I want to know what a caring adoption program might look like.
I hate the democratic backpedaling on abortion. Hate it. But I’m not the boss of everybody. Grr.
Uh. WHAT?
Find me a caring adoption program. Then find me a candidate who actively endorses adoption reform. And then I will stop cussing over here.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an adoption lobby endorse a candidate, but I honestly haven’t looked. I would bet, though, that NCFA would be more likely to back candidates with a pro-life stance. A real quick search of their database for our tri-state area shows that their members here are mostly faith-based agencies.
Plus, until abortion and adoption are disconnected in politics, what’s the point? You just end up with stuff like this, which gets you nowhere.
A technical note: in order to endorse candidates, the “caring adoption program” would have to have a political action committee. Just looking at both NCFA’s and Evan B. Donaldson’s websites, I’m guessing that they are both 501 (c) 3 organizations (probably with the h designation that increases their ability to lobby). This is only a guess, of course. If that is the case, those organizations would lose their tax status as non-profits if they were to endorse candidates.
A quick Google search of the words “adoption political action committee” (but not in quotes) comes up with roughly three relevant categories of pages. One is from gay-rights organizations fighting for (among other things) the rights of queer people to adopt. Another is from conservative groups, like the Arkansas Family Council, fighting the rights of gay men and lesbians to adopt. Finally, I see pages from adoptee groups fighting for open-records laws.
So, there are a number of groups lobbying around adoption issues. If they were to form PACs, I think it is unclear that there would be consensus about what makes a candidate a “pro-caring adoption” candidate. Even the Donaldson Institute is looking for funding for a project on embryo adoption — causing me concern about what criteria they would apply to candidates if they were to form a PAC and endorse candidates.
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