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Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV.
As one of some 14,000 Ethiopian children born with the virus every year, Solomon's prospects for survival _ much less adoption _ were grim. But Erin Henderson's heart stirred when she saw him, and she decided, on the spot, to adopt him.
'They told me that they weren't sure he would live through the weekend,' Henderson said by e-mail from her home in rural Wyoming, where she lives with her husband and 11 children, two of whom are HIV-positive adoptees from Ethiopia.
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13 These a do gooders, who have some kind of psychological problem, and feel the need to be some sort of hero! A more heroic thing to do, is leave your US life behind, and immigrate there, then you can adopt a whole village. It is NOT FAIR to taxpayers in the US for you to bring these medically challenged people here. Do something good in their own country! Hopefully, your true karma will return back to your twisted mind! Ain't buying it! |
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15 It makes me proud to be an American to know my fellow citizens open thier hearts and homes to the neediest of the needy. And it's great these children have an opportunity to come to our country, heal, grow and thrive. And take their place as productive American citizens, poised to make their contribution to their new nation. Just like so many before them. It's America. Working the way it should. God bless the United States of America. And may we always respond so appropriately to God's many blessings, doing God's work on this earth. |
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8 i totally agree with North fan on that one - we have thousands of children who are yet as unadopted in the US and are in desperate need of a family and a home - going abroad to adopt children is like turning our backs on our children here in America. Lets take care of our own children first. Im observing that currently people in the US have taken to adopting children from other countries purely for esoteric and thats just wrong because it only feeds into their ego and then you have child who is left emotionally neglected to add on to the thousands of other children that are already like this in our country. |
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6 It's illegal to bring snails in from another country - let alone some infected kid... If my grandkids catch AIDS I will sue the gubmint! |
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2 and they pretend they are not. floosh anseba,HIV is more in the tiny baren eritrea than in ethiopia |
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8 You dearie are the textbook archtype of the american adoptee of which I described in my earlier postings. Who the frig gave people like you and others the right to re-locate kids from foreign countries via $20,000-per-kid adoption and baby selling rings so you can 'feel good about yourself' in some kind of a sickening pathetic dysfunctional way by up-rooting some kid from 3/4 the way around the earth over to America as if this actually does some kind of long term good for the kids, apart from satisfying the dysfunctional pathetic ego of the rich SOB's who do this kind of stuff? Oh my folks, it was not enough for these rich bastards to adopt exotic pets or start ostrich farms or go into other kookish endeavors, now they are into 'baby selling and trading' across international borders like as if they were adopting a goddammed AKC certified poodle-dog they can parade around their gated mcmansion community on a diamond doggie collar. "Oh look at us we adopted a war refugee from a foreign land for just $30,000 and so can you Iris, you can put off that new Lexus for next xmas!" How utterly sickening!!!! |
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4 This has limousine liberal written ALL over it. Take your misguided hatred for non-liberals someplace it belongs, like the DailyKos. |
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3 Wow! Have a few issues, Dave? |
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3 I hope that these adaptive parents will be able to pay the $100,000's a year for treatment; and not throw their "responsibility" upon the taxpayers. There used to be an INS regulation against allowing ill or infectuous immigrants into the USA. What happened to it? |
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