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		<title>Parents sue over adoption of Russian boy with fetal alcohol syndrome</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/28/parents-sue-over-adoption-29342/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claim they weren&#8217;t adequately informed by adoption agency From the New York Times: A couple from Virginia Beach is suing Bethany Christian Services, an adoption agency, seeking compensation for the care of their Russian adoptive son, Roman. Chip and Julie Harshaw claim the agency misled them about Roman&#8217;s condition, describing him as &#8220;a beautiful, healthy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Too many adoptive families are kept in the dark</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the New York Times&#8217; Room for Debate blog, law professor David Smolin says the case of the boy who was sent back to Russia by his adoptive mother highlights the risks inherent in foreign adoptions. Many of these children, he says, have serious psychological, behavioral, cognitive and educational issues, the legacy of traumatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoptive mom returns boy to Russia &#8212; alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says authorities failed to disclose &#8216;psychopathic issues/behaviors&#8217; From the [UK] Daily Mail, AP/Washington Post, [UK] Telegraph: Russia&#8217;s foreign minister is urging an end to all U.S. adoptions after a a seven-year-old Siberian boy adopted by an American family was sent back to Moscow alone because his U.S. mother didn&#8217;t want him any more. The adoptive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controversial comic to appear in LA Down syndrome benefit</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/18/silverman-to-ds-benefit-28235/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Arrington, writing in TechCrunch.com via the Washington Post, reports that comedian Sarah Silverman has agreed to donate her time to a Los Angeles-area fundraiser to benefit people with Down syndrome. Proceeds from the March 6 benefit in Culver City, called TwentyWonder, will go to the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles. Silverman stirred controversy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How should doctors deliver a diagnosis of Down syndrome?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/02/down-syndrome-diagnosis-23265/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Landmark research offers recommendations for delivering the news, either prenatally or after baby&#8217;s birth Parents&#8217; preference: Don&#8217;t say &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry&#8217; In a historic first, two leading professional journals this week published research advising doctors on how to deliver a diagnosis of Down syndrome, either prenatally or after a baby is born. Advocates and physicians have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More people, like Heigl, adopting kids with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/23/adopting-kids-with-disabilities-22798/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosemary Black writes in the New York Daily News that celebrity couple Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley are among a growing number of parents who choose to adopt children with disabilities rather than wait for a healthy baby. Their 10-month-old daughter Naleigh was born in South Korea. Cory Barron, foundation director at the St. Louis-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heigl and husband adopting &#8216;special needs baby&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/11/heigl-adoption-22244/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appearing on The Ellen Degeneres Show, actress Katherine Heigl announced that she and husband Josh Kelley are adopting a baby girl with disabilities from Korea. With video. &#8220;She has special needs. She&#8217;s a special needs baby, and because of that things all moved so much faster,&#8221; Heigl said. &#8220;You know, they wanted to get her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why adopt a child with a disability?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/03/chinese-adoption-19570/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the New York Times Motherlode blog, commenters are hotly debating the motives of a Texas woman who plans to adopt a six-year-old Chinese girl with scoliosis. The comments were prompted by the first in a series of guest posts by Jenny Staff Johnson about her adoption journey. Johnson, who has two sons with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri state senator at center of prenatal testing debate</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/10/missouri-prenatal-testing-4667/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Loudon, wife adopted son with Down syndrome From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Republican Missouri state senator John Loudon and his wife are the adoptive parents of Sammy, a little boy with Down syndrome. The couple, who have deep roots in the anti-abortion movement, are also at the center of an ongoing national discussion about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoptions of children with Down syndrome are on the rise</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/10/down-syndrome-adoptions-4607/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post: Even as most prenatal diagnoses of Down syndrome lead to abortion, more families are seeking to adopt children with the condition. Almost 200 families are on waiting lists to adopt a child with Down syndrome in the United States, and others are seeking overseas adoptions. Many of those are families who [...]]]></description>
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