The Criminal Scheme Continues
The illusion of adoption is over. The industry is being exposed for carrying on a centuries-old criminal scheme. Yet, the propaganda persists, and people are challenged to confront their own ideology and beliefs of adoption. While the debate focuses on whether to continue such a scheme, or abolish it, current investigations unearth new mass graves of infants, highlight testimonies from victims, and report ongoing casualties resulting from domestic violence in foster care and adoption placements. Looking at such overwhelming evidence, one would think it is obvious this industry needs to stop. So, why hasn’t it?
If the deaths, murders, and suicides of countless victims are not enough to convince our global leadership to put an end to this crime against humanity, then what will? Our society has tolerated decades of abuse, violence and torture towards children in the care of the state. The same states legally remove the rights of the parents to take custody over their children and place them with care providers hired to protect and keep them safe. Time after time, case after case, state officials promise to ensure no more harm will come to the children in their care. Yet, questions remain who should be held accountable for these crimes. How should justice be served for lasting change? How do the surviving parents and families find peace in losing their child?
“So we find ourselves at the center of an Ethics War”
In the meantime, the human trafficking, aka, “adoption” industry runs a global multibillion dollar child supply market. Agencies, organizations, and lobby groups have demonstrated complete disregard to the death toll resulting from the industry they hold up as a pinnacle of humanity. Just how big is this market? Human trafficking has been considered one of the fastest growing criminal industries worldwide, currently $263 billion (A21.org) while adoption sits at ~$25 billion (Bloomberg), and surrogacy also ~$20 billion, but is projected to grow to $129 billion by 2032 (Global Economic Insights). This amounts to a combined total well over $300 billion worldwide annually. This can explain why human lives seem to be so disposable and expendable to an industry that has stopped at nothing to exploit the very lives it purports to save.
What is concerning is that reform measures are leading towards a future with new child supply markets. With its propaganda securely entrenched in the very fabric of our society and an ever-expanding pool of women, surrogates, egg donors, and children, the industry knows it has a firm place in the world for generations to come. We are entering a new era with surrogacy and egg donation as emerging markets to carry on this criminal scheme. Scientists and doctors are already working out the ethical concerns regarding family planning. The Center for Bioethics and Culture has taken a stance against surrogacy citing issues of the exploitation of women, endangering their health, and the commodification of human lives. So, we find ourselves at the center of this Ethics War.
It's possible that industry leaders will respond to these ethical dilemmas by removing more of the human element in the reproduction process. In fact, in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) is already a reality. IVG is the process of making gametes in a laboratory environment to be used in human reproduction. Gametes are synthesized through a stem cell process. LabioTech and Santa Clara University indicate that scientists have proven IVG successful in mice and is poised to apply to human trials in the next 5 years. What does this mean for humankind? How many more will be added to our population of adopted (trafficked through adoption), unnatural, donor conceived, surrogacy born, lab-grown people?
At this time, it seems the industry lobby has taken hold of the reigns, steering the attention away from the criminal scheme and towards a larger child supply market with a higher profit potential. Recruited by the lobby, “adoption” reform advocates are leading the way. This is what we are up against. The truth is that we live in a society that prioritizes profit over people. It is of utmost importance that victims of this industry deprogram themselves from its propaganda and take a stand together to safeguard the future of our humanity.