Have you ever heard of medical adoption?
What are your thoughts on this practice?
http://medicaladoptions.com/
Should it be against the law?
Also, you can check out the pricing for adoption:
http://medicaladoptions.com/adoption-pricing-based-on-child-preference-and-medical-needs/
Thanks for the heads up that this site is a hoax! There was a link on a website showing criminals in the neighborhood. Silly me! I didn't think of checking with snopes.com!
Anonymous
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Yes, the idea is disgusting. However, the site is not legitimate. It's been outed as a fake site (see the link below).
Anonymous
It's satire.
But the fact that people believe it says a lot about current adoption practices, doesn't it? If actual adoption sites can put actual price tags on actual children and sell the "defective" (nonwhite and/or special needs) ones for less, why is this so awful?
When some adoptees spend their entire lives being told how lucky they are, how grateful they should be, how they can never repay their a'parents and how not having their own identities is the price they pay for growing up adopted instead of with their "crack whore" mothers, why does the notion that the kid should fork over a kidney in return shock us?
Jennifer L
Never heard of it and after glancing at the website, I'm very glad it is a hoax. Completely in bad taste, but I suppose if its intent is to get people thinking, then it achieved it's purpose.
There are rumors in some countries with international adoption programs that the only reason Westerners adopt is for either child slavery or black market organ profiteering. This is why the yearly post-placement reports are so important.
I also worry about the future of eugenics, but I see it more alarming with the issue of human cloning than adoption. After all, you need a close genetic match for an organ/tissue transplant to work. A clone is an identical genetic match. I'm still supportive of stem cell research, but I think it needs to be done very carefully. Simply because we CAN do a thing, doesn't always mean that we SHOULD.
MamaKate
I read about this site several months ago. I looked it up and was horrified even though I already knew it was a hoax.
The more I thought about it; the more I decided it was a sort of statement about so many things. Adoption, value of life, children's rights, people as product, etc. It gave me lots to think about. As disgusting as it is to see something like this, it has value in that it makes people THINK. (Far too little of this goes on these days...)
So as foul a thing as it portrays, I have chosen to think of it as a piece of political art. I am glad to see it is promoting discussion even if it is shocking.
Anonymous
Oh my god, are you freakin kidding me??? They're pimping out these kids for the sole purpose of cutting them open???
So, wait, wait...let me get a grip on myself here...being an adoptee, you already don't get a say in who your parents are, whether or not you have ACCESS to your natural parents, whether or not you have access to your own birth certificate, and you can't even choose to legally end the adoption if your adoptive parents are a**holes, and these folks figure it's perfectly ok to ADD to that, "oh by the way, the only reason these people want you is so they can tear out your insides...no, literally". That's just frikin swell...I need to go puke now. Oh, too late.
ETA: Oh thank goodness this is fake. It's still disgusting, but at least it's not a real site. Makes you wonder, though, if there are people who really do this.