American couples who cannot have children of their own routinely spend tens of thousands of dollars to adopt babies from China and Eastern Europe. Prior to this, many of these same couples had spent tens of thousands of dollars on unsuccessful fertility treatments and IVF procedures.
The biggest reason for this: THERE ARE ESSENTIALLY NO BABIES PUT UP FOR ADOPTION IN THE UNITED STATES.
It is most unfortunate that there are conservatives out there who advocate eugenics and who are into this stuff. While Wikipedia is certainly not the most reliable source on the Internet, its claim that both Nelson Bunker Hunt (big-time Birch-ite) and conservative hero Jesse Helms were members of an organization named the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics is most disturbing. Does anyone out there know if this is in fact true???
Lothrop Stoddard, a eugenicist of a century ago who is to this day a hero to the "White Citizen's Council" types, was actually a personal friend of Margaret Sanger. And even in this day and time we have no only conservatives but even amorphous globs like Trent Lott who speak to the Council of Conservative Citizens, which is despite its name a racialist group.
Naturally the Left exploits the unhappy irony of Biblical Fundamentalism and white racism both being associated with the South in order to imply an inherent connection between the two philosophies (a connection I have never been able to understand). Though the Left never seems to critique the Biblical Fundamentalism of Blacks for some strange (or perhaps not so strange) reason.
Does anyone out there know why any conservative would want anything to do with these atheist skull-measurers and eugenics advocates?