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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some say that is reasoning behind Amy Comey Barrett’s “supply of domestic infants” remark.

Why would rich white women be interested in creating a supply of non-white babies to adopt? I thought it was less likely for a non-white baby to be adopted than a white one? If these whites women are infertile, wouldn’t they just go to a fertility clinic? This is 1940 anymore.

Doesn’t make sense to me. [/quote]

It's coming from the assumption that it's still 1960 and those unable to conceive would choose adoption because there were no other options available.

That's not true today due to the success of IVF. And IVF is almost always the preferred choice.

In fact, the number of people truly wanting to adopt infants in the US is not in fact as large as it might seem.

There are in fact many people who will not pursue adoption for their own personal reasons no matter who many babies are available, the race of the babies or the costs involved. 
People who want to adopt advertise this to others. People who don't want to do so are not advertising that to others because it is often not a comfortable conversation and it is really no ones business. This is why you rarely hear about it.

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The people I know who adopted had several failed IVF’s. [/quote]

We decided not to adopt, after failed fertility treatments. We decided not to progress to IVF either. If you run out of money, you run out of money. [b]Maybe we will do foster care in the future, but that's a while different scenario that we have to be ready to take on[/b].

I think the rich Republicans don't realize that most of us don't have the money floating around to do these things. If limiting abortions goes through, there will be lots of American babies available to adopt internationally. [/quote]

A bit off-topic: I don't know how far you've gone in researching the potential of foster care, but providing temporary respite care can be an excellent way to provide a really needed service that can help you live through just a bit of the reality of foster care before going down that path.  
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