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'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's parenting based on zero evidence. We know nothing about what she does or doesn't teach her kids about race. And yet people assume she'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'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's parenting but nobody can say anything about the bioethics of rich liberals' parenting choices, that won't fly. end/