Russian Lawmakers Pass Ban on Adoptions to US

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...options-to-us/

MOSCOW — The upper house of the Russian parliament unanimously approved a ban on adoptions to the United States on Wednesday. All eyes are now on the Kremlin as the bill goes to President Putin for his signature.

The ban was added last week to a broader bill retaliating for human rights sanctions signed by President Obama earlier this month. Putin has expressed support for the broader bill, which reciprocates the sanctions, but dodged questions last week about the adoption ban.

At stake are the cases of 46 Russian children whose adoptions would be frozen if the bill becomes law, according to Russia’s children’s ombudsman Pavel Astakhav. He said those children would receive priority to be adopted by Russian families.

The proposed ban has split Russian society. Outside the parliament at least seven people were detained while protesting the bill, according to RIA Novosti. Human rights advocates have urged Russian authorities not to move forward with the ban, saying it denies Russian orphans a home with a family.

It has also caused a rare division among the Russian government.

Several top officials, including Russia’s foreign minister and education minister have come out against the ban. A leaked memo from another top official suggested its passage would cause Russia to breach several international treaties, including a recently enacted adoption agreement between the United States and Russia.

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[loveableteddybear]

Good, Russian can keep all the white babies. White people here will just have to adopt more Chinese children.

Meanwhile, U.S. born black and brown babies still need homes.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Sad about Russia and this business, many of those up for adoption are "Alcohol/Drug Babies". There's stats one it, I'll have to find them.

[specsaregood]

Sad about Russia and this business, many of those up for adoption are "Alcohol/Drug Babies". There's stats one it, I'll have to find them.

My neighbors adopted 2 of them some 8 years ago. Great kids, Ive started hiring them to shovel snow and rake leaves.

[Keith and stuff]

Plenty of US babies still need parents. Maybe this will reduce abortion in the US?

[fisharmor]

Plenty of US babies still need parents. Maybe this will reduce abortion in the US?

No, the much more likely outcome will be improvements and cost reductions for in vitro.

[Confederate]

This is really sad, there are so many needy children in Russia in orphanages and in broken homes.

[coastie]

This is really sad, there are so many needy children in Russia in orphanages and in broken homes.

Boohoo, there are plenty here in America that could use the same.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Plenty of US babies still need parents. Maybe this will reduce abortion in the US?

Just some observations:

In general, black families don't adopt and black babies don't get adopted.

The gvmt makes it very difficult to adopt a child. The exception is foster parents, who often take in many after jumping through the hoops and get paid by the head by the state for raising them. ie: it's a business and many get taken stolen by CPS and "given" to these foster homes.

It will have absolutely no impact on abortion.

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[Zippyjuan]

Putin has not indicated he will sign the bill. This was in retaliation ironically to a Free Trade agreement between Russia and the US. The US Congress, during the aproval process of that deal, added a stipulation to deny visas for a handful of Russian government figures who were guilty in a bribery scandal. The lawyer who prosecuted them (and won) was later killed.