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Distraught woman sues, alleging N.J. helped child of rape find her
Philadelphia Daily News ^ | Tue, Jun. 23, 2009 | JASON NARK

Posted on 06/23/2009 4:52:16 PM PDT by Bokababe

Reunions of adopted children and their birth parents are usually heartwarming moments in which tears flow and broken bonds are made whole in mere seconds.

At least that's how it usually plays out on "Oprah."

But that wasn't the case last Dec. 13, when an Atlantic City woman came face to face with the daughter she placed for adoption 30 years ago after being raped.

This short reunion on the woman's doorstep left her feeling "violated, in shock, and short of breath," according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, in Camden, and she believes that a division of New Jersey's Department of Children and Families helped set up the traumatic event.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: abortion; adoption; moralabsolutes; rape; socialservices
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To: ican'tbelieveit

you are a very strange and bitter old man. sorry for your anger and hatred.


201 posted on 06/23/2009 10:00:12 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

agreed.


202 posted on 06/23/2009 10:01:21 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: annelizly
you are a very strange and bitter old man. sorry for your anger and hatred.

You respond like the liberals do. When they are caught within a pointless argument, they start calling conservatives names.

203 posted on 06/23/2009 10:04:26 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: RGSpincich

“...she shouldn’t use a false standing as a rape victim...”

Do you have inside information? You seem pretty confident that she wasn’t raped.

As for trying to make big bucks, do you think the contract between her and the state was enforceable or not? Was there a stipulation in the contract that it was null and void after 30yrs?


204 posted on 06/23/2009 10:06:58 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: annelizly

I am sorry that, on a conservative site, we have to deal with silly, selfish people, who live based on emotions and feelings.

Bitter old man, what a fool you are.


205 posted on 06/23/2009 10:07:14 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: RGSpincich

Although can we trust states to honor contracts they sign? (Smirk)


206 posted on 06/23/2009 10:09:59 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: annelizly

She does not have to honor any contract. She was never beholden to the contract. The state was.

I didn’t say that adoptees should be lucky to be alive. I said I would be glad to be alive. I AM glad to be alive. My mother accidentally set herself on fire while she was pregnant with me. It could have turned out differently. She was also very young and already had two children. She could have aborted me. I am glad she did not.


207 posted on 06/23/2009 10:10:07 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (I home school because I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my children.)
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To: annelizly

I am glad we have found some common ground. :)


208 posted on 06/23/2009 10:13:23 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (I home school because I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my children.)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
She could have aborted me. I am glad she did not.

Yeah, I am glad too. You sound like a neat sensible mother. God bless you.

209 posted on 06/23/2009 10:15:14 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Thank you very much! :)


210 posted on 06/23/2009 10:16:07 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (I home school because I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my children.)
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To: rawhide

LOL...yeah, then you must be liberal because you started with the name calling right from the beginning. what a joke you are.


211 posted on 06/23/2009 10:18:25 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: annelizly
Telling someone that they made a mean statement, which you did, is much different that telling someone you are a very strange and bitter old man.
212 posted on 06/23/2009 10:26:19 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: annelizly; rawhide

I have to defend rawhide here. I read back through all the posts and I only find well reasoned arguments until you call him a name. Then he says you argue like a liberal. You began right away by calling the rape victim a wussy.


213 posted on 06/23/2009 10:29:17 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (I home school because I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my children.)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

yes, but i didn’t call HIM a wussy. He called the name first with the “whiner” comment towards ME.


214 posted on 06/23/2009 10:31:02 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: rawhide

I am sorry, I thought you called rawhide a strange and bitter old man. I am defending the wrong person.


215 posted on 06/23/2009 10:34:12 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (I home school because I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my children.)
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To: annelizly

ping to 215, it is to late for me to be posting lol.


216 posted on 06/23/2009 10:34:53 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (I home school because I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my children.)
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To: rawhide

sorry about the last reply. thought you were the other person.


217 posted on 06/23/2009 10:41:19 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: silverleaf

Are you for real? What part of “freedom” do you not understand?


218 posted on 06/23/2009 10:49:35 PM PDT by Daniel II
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To: annelizly

I wouldn’t dream of criticizing you for the pursuit of your birth parents. If I were adopted, I would want to know, too. I can only imagine that it is painful not to know where you came from.

But my main concern with this case is that if women know that a child that they gave up for adoption years ago could turn up on their doorstep asking even the most legitimate question like “Why did you give me up?”, then more women might opt for abortion just to have closure on a painful chapter of their life.

In a case like this, where the child was a product of rape, who does it serve to unearth this thirty years later? Not the woman, not the rejected child, not the woman’s other children or family. The fact is that everyone suffered from this action and no one benefited. It was just flat out the wrong thing for the State to do.

And for others who think that the mother is just in it for the money, if she hadn’t filed a lawsuit, we wouldn’t be discussing this. This is America — about the only way that you can get attention and change from the government on an issue like this, IS to file a lawsuit for a substantial amount of money. Sad, but true.


219 posted on 06/23/2009 11:08:09 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Regarding my earlier post to you, I am only referring to this topic on this thread. We may disagree on this one, but agree on many other things. I should have clarified that in that post.


220 posted on 06/23/2009 11:08:36 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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