Posted on 07/10/2018 12:36:20 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
In September 2016, just as the presidential race was entering its final weeks, the State Department quietly proposed new regulations governing international adoption. Adoption advocates sounded the alarm, saying the regulations would severely hamper Americans’ ability to adopt overseas. I wrote about this for The Federalist just days before the November election.
Then, to almost everyone’s surprise, Donald Trump was elected president. On the day of his inauguration, Trump began a regulatory reform effort, announcing a moratorium on all new regulations from executive agencies. Ten days later, he issued an executive order requiring agencies to repeal two regulations for every new one they proposed.
Under this new scrutiny, the State Department soon withdrew its proposed adoption rule. Adoption advocates breathed a sigh of relief.
“If Trump hadn’t been elected, those regulations would have been implemented,” says Ron Stoddart, president of Save Adoptions. “It was his ban on new regulations that stopped them.” The Deep State Strikes Back
The relief was short-lived. Less than a year later, it appears the State Department has found a way to end-run around the president’s deregulation agenda. Without altering a single word of the regulations, advocates say, the State Department is now implementing policies that will make international adoption rarer and more expensive than ever.
It started in October, when adoption agencies received a stunning letter from the Council on Accreditation (COA). A 40-year-old organization, COA provides accreditation for more than 2,000 agencies in a wide variety of social service fields, including adoption. It has been accrediting adoption agencies for 25 years, both before and after the United States ratified the international Hague Adoption Convention.
Under the Hague Convention, U.S. law makes the State Department the central authority over international adoption, but it requires another public or nonprofit entity to act as the “accrediting entity”
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Mike Pompeo really needs to clean house here.
There has been a sharp downturn in international adoptions the past few years. This might be the nail in the coffin.
Mrs. BN & I looked into adopting the three youngest children of our neighbor in Belize after she’d died of cancer. We were told we were too old - 64 & 65 at the time.
Leftists/Bureaucrats want to kill babies and to make it extremely difficult & expensive to adopt those whom they failed to kill.
“We are the Party of compassion!” “It’s for the children!”
I believe Obama was playing games with Russia at the time the new regulations came about...a tit for tat. And Obama was the bas**** in the game.
[Mrs. BN & I looked into adopting the three youngest children of our neighbor in Belize after she’d died of cancer. We were told we were too old - 64 & 65 at the time.]
The State Department should be renamed The Deep State Department.
The whole point of making adoption, whether foreign or domestic, more difficult is to make abortion seem like the only “option.” The left hates adoption.
The vast majority of foreign adoptions work out just fine, just like the vast majority of adoptions in general, but that doesn’t fit the leftist plan.
State is infested with deeply embedded swampers. It is way past time for Sec. Pompeo needs to get busy and fire a whole bunch of people. It has been 18 months since President Trump filled the office. Plenty of time to get it done.
These deep staters are sitting on their butts laughing their asses off at us. Needs to come to a screeching halt.
Mike Pompeo assumed office April 26, 2018. That's a little more than two months ago, and he has been consumed with the North Korea negotiations, which are more important than international adoptions at the moment. Complain to Rex Tillerson.
I apologize for my irritable Irish retort, upchuck.
This was THE decisive factor for why my family adopted from China. A few years previously one of THE top tier lawyers in our city lost their child after almost three years of parenting. So as a prospective parent myself, I had to ask myself "who was paying for this legal action against a lawyer that strikes fear in the hearts of those he challenges in court?"
No Thanks. I'll go elsewhere.
Ha, ha. I was commenting that we’ve had 18 months since the regime change. Plenty of time to at least start cleaning house. Trump, Tillerson, Pompeo. I don’t care who does it, just DO IT. Lack of progress is really irritating.
Pardon my English/Irish retort.
[This was THE decisive factor for why my family adopted from China. A few years previously one of THE top tier lawyers in our city lost their child after almost three years of parenting. So as a prospective parent myself, I had to ask myself “who was paying for this legal action against a lawyer that strikes fear in the hearts of those he challenges in court?”
No Thanks. I’ll go elsewhere.]
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