I just read a piece on transborder adoptions in the wake of the ACB hearings.

There are plenty of serious ethical issues here, and I don& #39;t know the issue well enough to comment on them. 1/

BUT something like 3/4s of the arguments were just racial stereotypes and assumptions about ACB& #39;s parenting based on zero evidence. We know nothing about what she does or doesn& #39;t teach her kids about race. And yet people assume she& #39;s the devil because of her religious beliefs. 2/

What I would say is this. This issue appears to be for liberals what in vitro fertilization is for conservatives. In both cases, a political group has serious ethical objections to a practice that is in the rich person& #39;s toolkit for having kids. 3/

Further, the position puts a general objection about bioethics up against specific parents who love their children and have some cause to say this is none of our business just like other parenting choices. 4/

In principle, I think more bioethics discussions would be a good thing. But if your position is we get to make a bunch of stereotype driven assumptions about ACB& #39;s parenting but nobody can say anything about the bioethics of rich liberals& #39; parenting choices, that won& #39;t fly. end/