Comments on: Bill 3217 (The Ortega Law) and Bill 3635

By: soblessed

soblessed — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:16:30 +0000

It’s a disaster, for sure. BTW, has anyone ever seen a SINGLE anti-adoption person go to downtown Guatemala, any street, sit down next to a filthy, hungry toddler eating dirt clumps by the side of the road and say “I just KNOW that preventing your adoption is going to benefit not just you but all other other homeless and hopeless children in this country”. No? Gosh, I can’t imagine why not…….

Happy retirement Sr. and Sra. Berger. It’ll be a grand one earned on the backs of the homeless children of your country…..

By: emory77

emory77 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:45:59 +0000

I thought 3635 had a fighting chance at one point. I agree with Sandra-this is a disaster.

good job on bringing us the news, btw!!!

By: Chromesthesia

Chromesthesia — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:25:39 +0000

Singles to adopt? This is ridiculous.
What can be DONE about this?
Ending international adoption didn’t do much good for Romania and Cambodia, so why are they trying this in Guatemala? I really don’t understand.

By: Sandra Hanks Benoiton

Sandra Hanks Benoiton — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:34:17 +0000

What a disaster.

One of the gang of anti-adoption bloggers has been referring to the present situation in Guatemala as a 'train wreck'. I've suggested it's much more like a terrorist attack, and with UNICEF paying bribe money, that over-inflated gas bag of an organization has to be considered part of the attack force.

Those who've been concerned about bribery and coercion in adoptions should be taking note of this mother of all bribes. The Bergers will have themselves a nice little retirement package, though.

Pity the Guatemalan children, folks. They're being hung out to dry. I would so love to see some of these people working so hard to end adoption in the country have to answer to the children someday.