One year after Colombia’s Constitutional Court lifted a restriction on adoptions by same-sex couples, a bill yesterday passed through Colombia’s senate that would allow only heterosexual couples to adopt excluding gay couples and individuals according to this article.
A Bill in Pennsylvania is reported to offer parents adoption-related counseling services to parents considering placing a child for adoption. The bill was first introduced on October 7, 2015 and on June 21, 2016 it received a 198-0 vote on third consideration and final passage.
Report from Boston Globe that on May 19, 2016, U.S. Representative Tom Marino (R-PA-10), introduced a BILL for consideration that seeks to direct the US State Department’s attention away from International Adoption red tape which have caused a substantial decline since 2004 arguing that children’s human rights are harmed by being institutionalized in foreign countries.
The thrust of the argument appears to place more importance and spotlighting the freeing institutionalized children for adoption and avoiding the reasons for the red tape which might include safeguards for children to avoid kidnapping, baby selling, etc.
