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7. Betsy deVos and big business child selling

Sat May 7, 2022, 12:56 PM

May 2022

Christian Non-Profit Faces Scrutiny Over Government Foster Care Contract for Separated Children

Bethany Christian Services, which has links to the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has fostered out at least 81 children taken from their parents at the U.S. border.
Dan MacGuill
Published 26 June 2018
Updated 11 July 2018

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Bethany Christian Services, an adoption center with financial ties to [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos, has taken 81 immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents at the border. Most have had no contact with their families. They’re charging $700 per child per night. This isn’t foster care, this is state-sponsored kidnapping.

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https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/

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Supreme Court opinion on abortion uses the phrase "domestic supply of infants." It's on page 34 [View all] Swede May 2022 OP

Alito and the GOP see fertile women as "Producers" Pachamama May 2022 #1

and in early Japan women were allowed to fight YoshidaYui May 2022 #26

That is a quote from the CDC LeftInTX May 2022 #2

The section for which that forms a footnote is therefore relevant muriel_volestrangler May 2022 #32

The facts are: Women who are single keep their children and no longer give them up for adoption LeftInTX May 2022 #35

Sort of like China's for-profit forced organ harvesting using political prisoners as donors. sop May 2022 #3

Yes. n/t barbaraann May 2022 #10

Perhaps it's time to check out who is investing in adoption services? TheBlackAdder May 2022 #4

That is the whole point to "smaller gov't", less regs, more opportunity for corruption... Thomas Hurt May 2022 #11

Yes, and which groups are lobbying Congress for favorable adoption laws and materiel bucolic_frolic May 2022 #16

Sure seems that way, doesn't it? Scary sh!t. ❤ littlemissmartypants May 2022 #45

Why aren't the reporters asking these people what the government will pay per forced birth? Tumbulu May 2022 #5

I'm surprised some anti-abortion apologist hasn't yet argued pregnant women will now be able to sop May 2022 #36

There are enough idiots in that cohort that I wouldn't be surprised littlemissmartypants May 2022 #46

There's also artificial insemination by sperm donors. greatauntoftriplets May 2022 #6

Great point. Someone else on another thread mentioned littlemissmartypants May 2022 #48

Betsy deVos and big business child selling cbabe May 2022 #7

This is straight out of some dark US history AntivaxHunters May 2022 #8

OMG GoldandSilver May 2022 #53

Supply and demand. More Republican capitalism. ZonkerHarris May 2022 #9

Agree! keithbvadu2 May 2022 #18

That is just awful. What are they going to do have baby factories with enslaved women..wouldn't Demsrule86 May 2022 #12

They are quoting a CDC study LeftInTX May 2022 #22

The funny thing is that the forced birth movement caused this lack of supply Farmer-Rick May 2022 #27

Making abortion illegal won't change this stat LeftInTX May 2022 #29

Well, I wonder Farmer-Rick May 2022 #42

Yes, they will need to stigmatize single mothers again in order for moms to give up their infants. LeftInTX May 2022 #43

WHITE Infants Deep State Witch May 2022 #13

Thank you for sharing this, Swede. ❤ littlemissmartypants May 2022 #14

It was an industry from about 1850 to the 1960s, shipping orphans and poor kids bucolic_frolic May 2022 #15

Wow, that is a punch to the gut PatSeg May 2022 #17

Alito's intentions are, shall we say, naked and unashamed now, aren't they? Hekate May 2022 #19

But what the hell does that have to do with the question of constitutionality?!?!?!?!? groundloop May 2022 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author LeftInTX May 2022 #37

Not a single thing. It's based on the fact that single women tend to keep their children nowadays LeftInTX May 2022 #38

Orphan Train Movement relocated children to foster homes in the Midwest bucolic_frolic May 2022 #21

My great grandmother may have been one of those children from NY. Delmette2.0 May 2022 #24

That doesn't feel like...that IS the Handmaid's Tale. paleotn May 2022 #23

Pure Neanderthal SpankMe May 2022 #25

Or capitalism gone mad. meadowlander May 2022 #49

What the unholy f*ck? Joinfortmill May 2022 #28

Evidently, running adoption agencies is a lucrative business. Lonestarblue May 2022 #30

follow the money housecat May 2022 #31

It doesn't feel like The Handmaid's Tale.. Pacifist Patriot May 2022 #33

So-o-o-o, if I read this right... WinstonSmith4740 May 2022 #34

Is there a shortage of kids now to adopt? Emile May 2022 #39

Yes. Single mothers keep their kids now! LeftInTX May 2022 #40

I'm glad I asked that question. Thanks for that information. Emile May 2022 #41

There's a longstanding shortage of healthy white babies meadowlander May 2022 #47

Also the standards are lower. Voltaire2 May 2022 #56

Turning newborns into a commodity. Capitalism gone bonkers. nt Ilsa May 2022 #44

So basically, Karma13612 May 2022 #50

The Fatherland must be kept strong ! More bodies ! More bodies ! nt eppur_se_muova May 2022 #51

It's not enough to take control of the bodies of potential mothers. littlemissmartypants May 2022 #52

GOP sees babies as property to be bought and sold. Irish_Dem May 2022 #54

Straight out Nazi shit. Voltaire2 May 2022 #55

Democratic adverts should say: CousinIT May 2022 #57