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I applaud her efforts to make sense of her life. However, after reading this essay I was left with a very bad taste in my mouth. First of all, I'm insulted at her handy usage and assumption that multiracial children and babies are "invisible members" of society. Speaking as an American born Spanish mulatta, I've never felt "invisible" or "marginalized" by anyone in America. Why do the liberals like to inject race, then turn around call conservatives racist? Also, her example is not valid because of the other forces driving the politics/financial complications of adoption. Bad example. Another thing that tipped me off was the lesbian camp out thing. Christopher Reeve may be a Unitarian, but he has a believe in God.

She and Peter Singer are cut from the same cloth. Actually I think Singer is a better man because he states his beliefs up front and doesn't use phony distractions to prove his point. She is an atheist and I assume believes in evolution. Evolution WOULD have her chopped to bits in an abotion vacuum or partial-birth abortion-ized. Apart from God and the Bible, she can't really explain why she should be allowed to live other than to spout humanist-earth religious platitudes and goobley gook.

Thanks. The race argument she makes IS absurd. I don't believe there is any such thing as an unadoptable baby (assuming that it can be cared for by parents of normal resources--some babies, obviously, can't.) I think there is only too much red tape in the adoption process...and racism, lots and lots of racism built into it. How can it be better for mixed-parentage children to go to foster homes instead of adoptive homes, in the interest of trying to match melanin levels???

Colin Powell is pretty darn light skinned. Condaleeza Rice has light features. I'd say that any barriers that once existed have fallen most places (not all.) You can be whatever you want to be, whatever your heritage, in this country. If you're disabled, there are laws in place that make it possible to be a lawyer, to afford to be cared for so that you stay alive, comfortable, and functioning. These things are only possible if our society stays extremely wealthy. She won't live long if that changes.

If she really thought things through, she'd become a conservative, because the compassion that lets her survive and thrive comes from wealth.