Your baby is dead: Mothers say their supposedly stillborn babies were stolen from them

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This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an injection. She blacked out, and when she started to come to, a male voice said: “knock her out.” She claimed she woke up sometime later and …

Indian Adoption Era: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

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This is a work sample trailer of the research and development footage for Blood Memory, a feature-length documentary film exploring the Indian Adoption Era and the controversial role of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). For full website visit here. Adoptionland.org provide current (and past) issues in adoption. We offer a deeper and wider description of adoption as opposed to …

Babies for Sale; In Peru, It’s a Simple Supply and Demand Situation

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December 18, 1990 | ALEX EMERY | ASSOCIATED PRESS LIMA, Peru — Phillip Thomas Shaffer, 4 months old, wriggled in his new mother’s arms, an appealing grin on his face. He is unaware of the human drama unfolding around him as his mother, Terry, battles court officials and the bureaucracy to adopt him. Foreigners, most of them from the United States, are coming …

Tinan, Testimony of an Uprooted Child

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“In 2002, I finally found my family. I learned the exact circumstances of my adoption: I had been kidnapped with forty children from an institution that is called  a “nursery” here, where poor families can leave their children, for the time to get out of a distress situation, and take them back.” Part 1: Interview with Tinan Leroy held in 2010 …

Father Begins Legal Fight To Get Infant Back From Adoptive Parents

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LOGAN — Utah’s controversial laws regarding a father’s rights in adoption procedures are in the spotlight again. On Friday, a 20-year-old man who claims he just lost his newborn daughter to an unwanted adoption began the legal fight to get her back.The attorney hired by Colby Nielsen called a press conference Friday afternoon to make his arguments to the public, …