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crystalpopcorn
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where do candidates stand on tax credit?
crystalpopcorn
member
in Adoption
I am interested to see what impact the election could have on the adoption tax credit. ?I googled it, but couldn't find anything that tells me where each candidate stands on the tax credit. ?Have any of you seen anything?
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Re: where do candidates stand on tax credit?
Not a thing.
Though, according to Newsweek (the big story on MSN right now) is that Obama would press for less funding for crisis pregnancy centers (eg, less counseling for all options, including adoption).
That makes me sad if it's true. And I don't know what in politics is true these days.
John McCain is an adoptive parent, and from the research I've done he's cosponsored legislation that is positive toward adoption. Some of that legislation includes ways to prohibit discrimination against families with adopted children, to provide adoption education, and to permit tax deductions for qualified adoption expenses. He's also worked to remove barriers to interracial and inter-ethnic adoptions.
From all I've read, his stance is to promote adoption as a first option for women struggling with a crisis pregnancy.
Fredalina, thanks for the clarification. I'll post what was in the Newsweek article, which admittedly didn't get into the details.
There is also what some would consider the insuperable problem of squaring a concern for fostering alternatives to abortion with Senator Obama's opposition to federal funding of crisis pregnancy centers that provide precisely those alternatives. Moreover, the Freedom of Choice Act Obama has pledged to sign forbids publicly supported programs helping pregnant women from "discriminating" against abortion. Thus a federal Pregnant Women Support Act?a key plank in the platform of pro-life congressional Democrats?would, in Orwellian fashion, be legally bound by FOCA to include support for abortion.