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  1. I watched this when it first aired a couple weeks ago. It was heartbreaking but I am so glad they made it – it’s a hugely important topic that gets barely any notice, for reasons that are sadly all too familiar. Definitely recommend watching it if you can.

  2. Then, there is I’m Having Their Baby, a show that it is safe to say, is home to the ultimate exploitation of women.

    There are huge numbers of mothers – birth moms and adopted moms – that are boycotting the show. Along with others like me, of course.

  4. Although I don’t have a TV, I was able to watch it through the PBS website.

    I can’t attest that this isn’t a documentary that you want to miss. What I enjoyed most about it was that it focused on the incredible and dynamic complexities of human nature. For example, there’s one woman who had met her husband in church. Later, after they’d been wed for some time, she finds documents that reveal he’s HIV positive–and was before they got married, even though he’d never disclosed it. In the end, after they discussed it, she decided to stay with him because they were husband and wife, and she still loved him.

    Maybe that’s not the way we would react, but it does reinforce my initial observation of the documentary.

  5. Is there anywhere else it can be found? HIV/AIDS is one of my ‘things’, but PBS is rejecting my non-US eyes

    My usual documentary sites (all legal!) have come up blank, thus far.

    WRT “I’m Having Their Baby”, if it’s the UK (Channel 4) documentary of the same name, then it’s actually not so bad.

    It’s not a transaction over here, it’s illegal to do it for profit.

    Prospective parents must first pass the process that every adoptive parent goes through, Including;

    interviews (separate and together), pre-adoption counselling, and Enhanced CRB checks to check their background for existing complaints/convictions for violent or sexual offences.

    Only when the prospective parents are cleared to adopt (can take a year or more) can they begin the process of finding a birth mum.

    The baby, once born, is registered as the child of [birth mother] and [adoptive parent #1], and that can’t change until social services check everything out one last time, and give the go-ahead to complete the adoption process by issuing an adoption cert. in the name of the adoptive parents. Until that’s completed the birth mother can back out.

    The above process of screening, background checks, and requiring social service clearance applies to foreign-born surrogate babies too.

    You cannot bring baby home until zie’s been issued a visa by the Home Office, who first confirm with local social services that proper protocol has been followed. Again, this can take a couple of months.

    It isn’t as simple as it migbt be elsewhere.

  6. Jill, if you like watching documentaries–which I believe you do–try searching on Hulu.com for a documentary titled “God Grew Tired of Us.”

    You’ve likely already seen it, but you should check it out if you haven’t. And even if you have, I think it’s worth watching again. It’s free, but you’ll probably have to turn the volume down when those horrifically repetitive commercials come around.

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