Pregnancy and Adoption Resources

Kathmandu: A meeting was held today between the consulates, embassies of various countries in Nepal and the Ministry of Women Children and Social Welfare to discuss and update International Adoption of Nepal. The meeting was coordinated by the German Embassy here in Nepal.

The Ministry briefed the international offices about a “Code of Conduct “which the government is planning to introduce to stake holders of international adoption which would include the orphanages, representatives and agencies. A participant of the meeting said that this Code of Conduct however did not speak about anything for the Ministry ” themselves” who with the centralization of process has become the key players of adoption.
The ministry also updated in the meeting that almost two hundred fifty dossiers have been registered, however the ministry did not “openly” state about the matching status said a participant. He added that several important questions raised by the embassies and consulates were not clarified by the Nepal officials, the counsels were not satisfied with govt. response to their questions. Meanwhile according to a reliable source the Ministry has matched children from three families of American Agency Holt International.

The ministry has directly mailed the referral package to these three families. This has taken the representatives here and adoption agencies abroad by surprise. “Nepal has just ratified the Hague and according to Hague communication with the family has to be through the Agency” said one of the representative from the Adoption Agencies Representative Forum Nepal (AARFN) “ We representatives are confused and surprised by Ministry’s step of sending the child referral directly to the families, there is a system which the New Terms and Conditions have laid down and the government should walk on those lines”.

The new rules states of families going through an approved agency.
The government had last year invited application from agencies abroad and approved and accredited 68 adoption agencies earlier to work for international Adoption from Nepal.

The pro-choice person stated “a fetus isn’t a baby.” Oh, really? Someone is confused, because the police in Oxford, MS weren’t on the same page when they found a “fetus” laying in someone’s yard. Or, how about the “fetus” that was recently found in a freezer? Why charge anyone with a crime when we’re supposed to believe that the “mass of cells” isn’t really human?

I tried to remember that last time when I heard a pregnant female refer to that mass as “my fetus.” It’s referred to as a “my baby” and the female is called “a mother.” Can a person be a “mother” of a “non-human fetus.”

 The argument put forth by the “it’s not human” speaker is that a woman should have a “choice” about being pregnant. Please understand that I will in no way diminish the trauma of a pregnancy occurring as a result of force…that is criminal. However, rape cases account for a very, very small percentage of pregnancies and the actions that result in a pregnancy are fairly obvious. Becoming pregnant, or taking the risk of becoming pregnant, is a choice.

Let’s get real! In the vast majority of cases the issues are “temporary pleasure” and “convenience.”  A human fetus is a priceless creation designed by the Creator. The little human deserves the protection of the law and the protection of his or her mother. If we, as a nation, diminish the value of one stage/state of human life, what will protect humanity at other “inconvenient” stages? What about the Alzheimer’s patient? What about the child who is born with mental or physical limitations?

 In this world of few absolutes, the words of an ancient King…the spokesman for the Heavenly King…end the argument for those who claim to be Christian Believers. Or…is believing the Sacred Words another “choice” to be made as a matter of convenience?

“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!” (Psalm 139:14-17).

Please make a “choice” and please make that choice for life.