What those heartless GOP "Pro-Life" bastards are doing re adoption tax credits.

I don't post much personal stuff here but I'm going to now.

My son and daughter in law just gave us our first grandson, a gorgeous, wonderful newborn that I'm certain will be the best thing that has ever happened to the world. He is EVERYTHING, to them and to us.

But if you haven't gone through the adoption process in the US today (and I know there are foster kids out there but they wanted to raise him from the get-go and have the whole life parenting experience) you have no idea how strenuous, stressful, and INCREDIBLY expensive it can be. Agencies, lawyers, home studies, portfolios, expenses for expectant mothers, expenses for travel to where the birth mother and baby are and staying in the state until all requirements are met (sometimes a month or more), time off of work, and myriad other things. They paid for it all. It can hit the $50,000 range without a blink.

And they lost one. Birth mother, at the last minute, after they were already there and had paid everything from rent to food to anything not covered by Medicare, disappeared. They have no idea what happened to the baby they had been waiting for for months. You can't be mad at her; they're not buying a baby. They're participating in one of the most stressful things someone can go through. They had no rights and they lost a ton of money.

And then they had to do it all over again.

And it was all worth it. They are ecstatic and exhausted and everything new and loving parents are. They are the objects of my incredible admiration for their ability to go through this with strength and love. I unselfconsciously take part credit for raising that man. He is going to be an incredible father.

There's some hope for recouping a little of the massive outlay for the failed adoption, but not all by any means and it's a crap shoot. The adoption tax credit for their new son will help tremendously. For MANY people not as privileged as they are it is literally the difference between giving a baby the mother chooses to have but cannot raise a loving and comfortable home and not being able to afford to. And there are lots of middle class couples in this category.

And the GOP is cavalierly, right-to-lifely, blithely getting rid of that credit. They are, for NO reason I can fathom, preventing good and loving people from making families and helping women who choose, as they say they should, to give birth rather than having abortions a chance at giving their babies lives they might not be able to.

What in the name of all that is human do they gain from this? Even "tax cuts for the rich" doesn't justify this destruction of the ability for good people to find happiness. It is inhuman, inhumane, hypocritical, incomprehensible.

We have to stop them. Lives depend on it in so many ways. Heck, our grandson's ability to have a sibling might depend on it.