Continued from the previous post.

As an example of how the situation at the Guatemalan orphanage, Casa Quiviria, has fueled anti-adoption fire like gas on a barbecue, we've been looking at a blog meant to burn international adoption to a crisp and leave nothing but ash.

Taking the same quotes from the same story on the same woman, Ana Escobar, who we met in the weak and wobbly story I wrote about recently ... Remember the one with the mysteriously edited headline? ... the regurgitated pap gets the typical twist that tries to take unsubstantiated guesswork and turn it into proof that kidnapping in Guatemala equals adoption.

(Tragic though her tale may be ... and it most certainly is since her child was reported taken from her at gunpoint ... Ms. Escobar's dedicated assumption that her baby was taken for adoption is nothing more than that. As the hysteria builds, international adoption now holds the same place in the minds of Guatemalans that snatching for body parts held a few years ago when that rumored horror was the top of the myth hit parade.)

Referring to the political maneuvering that is the most likely cause of the Casa Quivira baby grab as a "... a harbinger of hope to Guatemalans citizens worried about losing their children", the blogger asks: "... does anyone--adoptive parents looking at their referral photos, adoptive parents gazing on the longed-for child sleeping in their arms, the American agency who has stayed in business another year and been honored for their humanitarian work, the US government that has responded to the demands of a vocal voters that demand that adoption remain open despite problems--ANYONE--care about the grief of a Guatemalan mother?"

What incredible and insulting arrogance!

Apparently, because this blogger has personal experience with unethical adoption she has been awarded the torch of self-righteous judge and jury of all in international adoption, and in her toting the thing she's decided all come up lacking.

With anti-adoption the message at its core, although flimsily disguised as a kick-up-the-backside stab at reform, this blog and others like it should be seen in the context of the agenda inspiring them.

With not even a passing mention of the plight of thousands of Guatemalan children, no acknowledgment of the fates many of those adopted would have faced had they not found families, and not a single option dropped behind as a ray of hope, the story is only half-told at best from the get-go. Add to that the personal spin, and the murkiness of the intentionally perpetuated miasma becomes easy to see straight through.



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