{"id":2444930,"date":"2019-06-03T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-times-column-pushes-boundaries-about-adoption\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:01:31","slug":"aspen-times-column-pushes-boundaries-about-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-times-column-pushes-boundaries-about-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Times column pushes boundaries about adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Glenn K. Beaton asks <a id=\"N0x24d0770N0x263cab0:N0x24d0770N0x24a0120\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/glenn-k-beaton-what-about-the-adoption-option\/\">\u201cWhat about the adoption option?\u201d<\/a> for expectant moms (Commentary, June 2, The Aspen Times). The reason he believes adoption is not promoted enough is because of the abortion rate. So, he pits these two options \u2014 which have very little to do with one another \u2014 against one another while totally ignoring the most logical, loving, brave and natural option: Raising and nurturing one\u2019s child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">You say: \u201cLet\u2019s stop weaponizing babies, criminalizing doctors, endangering women, demonizing men and bashing the other side,\u201d yet you recommend drug testing expectant mothers. How about not judging?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">You recommend prospective adopters to pay expectant mothers. Why not just suggest human trafficking? Selling babies? What you are suggesting is actually done and it is very exploitative and coercive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Mirah Riben<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Monroe, New Jersey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-times-column-pushes-boundaries-about-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn K. Beaton asks \u201cWhat about the adoption option?\u201d for expectant moms (Commentary, June 2, The Aspen Times). The reason he believes adoption is not promoted enough is because of the abortion rate. So, he pits these two options \u2014 which have very little to do with one another \u2014 against one another while totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 05:57:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444944,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444930\/revisions\/2444944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}