Articles labeled: adoption

We’ve always wondered less about the people that sell babies than those that *buy* them. Who does that? How do you explain it to the neighbors?

“Hey, Linda, I see you got a new Hispanic baby there.”

“Oh, yeah, well, we, uh, found him at Wal-Mart and decided to keep him. Gotta go!”

Amado Torres, 64, of Harlingen, Texas, and his 25-year-old wife Maria Isabel Hernandez are suspected of buying more than a dozen children aged 2 or younger, officials say.

Investigator Oralia Mancha said the child trafficking ring came to light when a woman came to a police station in Reynosa on Monday to report her granddaughter missing, spotted Torres there and claimed he had the baby.

Police later arrested Torres and Hernandez after finding them with the baby at a house in nearby Rio Bravo.

And one official is blaming abortion. But we’re not even that clear on the argument — we think he’s saying that because there are more abortions, there are less unwanted kids to be put up for adoption, but that’s a bad thing and a moral dilemma? Can someone clue us in on the downside here?

[Jackson Carlaw, Tory public-health spokesman] has queried if the 1967 Abortion Act is linked to the fall in adoptions. There has been a 750 per cent increase in abortions in Scotland since 1968, from 1,537 to 13,081 in 2006. But experts dismissed this as too simplistic an explanation.

“I’m not issuing a moralising polemic against the principle of abortion,” said Mr Carlaw. “I am merely analysing the trends that have followed the passing of the Abortion Act, seeking to bring them to public attention and hoping to encourage public debate about whether we are comfortable with the direction in which we are heading.

“It seems to me that, however worthy, sex education has failed. I would argue that there should be a fresh public discussion.”