Tracy Clemenger, the co-author of the article, “Canada’s 30,000 Adoptable Children in a Labyrinth of Policy and Social Issues” in the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s Faith Today magazine, is the parent of an adopted child. She and her husband, Bruce, “saw it as a natural expression of what it means to be a Christian,” she told The Interim. They used the public adoption process to find a child who was not an infant, as they knew that there were many ... (Continue reading)
Ramona D’Addazio was adopted as a baby. All of her siblings were adopted as well. Her parents were very open with them about their adoption. “I don’t remember not knowing,” she told The Interim. “I grew up knowing that my parents loved me,” she said, and she did not feel that her childhood was significantly different from that of her friends. Ramona did not feel she was treated differently by her family and friends because she was adopted. Yet, two ... (Continue reading)
Life Canada, an organization seeking to educate Canadians about the value of life, launched a national awareness campaign in November, to coincide with the Canada’s official National Adoption Awareness Month. Life Canada’s “Adoption in Canada” campaign aims to assure 18 to 29-year-old women facing unplanned pregnancies that adoption is a “heroic” choice. According to the campaign’s website, adoptionincanada.ca, “many will consider abortion as the way out of their difficulties, but only a ... (Continue reading)
Public relations gimmick or genuine ‘choice’ A pro-abortion adoption agency? The very idea may sound like an oxymoron. What about a pro-adoption abortion facility? Nevertheless, to Corinna Lohser and Cristina Page, co-founders of the recently created Adoption Access Network, these are newly stated goals of the so-called pro-choice movement. It is no secret that the term pro-choice is understood by pro-lifers as a euphemism for pro-abortion. Historically the word ‘choice’ has functioned as a synonym for ‘abortion’ in political and ... (Continue reading)