Maternal Crisis Center

Message: 123From: flyingshipproductionsReceived: Di Jul 01, 2008 4:09
Subject: CHSFS/Birthing Centers

I followed that thread on EthiopiaAdopt and on the big AAR board aswell.  They were talking about CWA.  I was aware that CHSFS also hada "maternity crisis" center, but I haven't seen that come up onEthiopiaAdopt. I do think they should respond to the requests that should childrenbecome available for adoption through their center, that thosechildren would be placed with other agencies.  That would totallyclear them of any ethical questions. Did they say why they won't guarentee that? JoAnnaap- whfcpap- aai --- In EthiopiaAAR@yahoogroups.com, "Danielle" <dani@...> wrote:> > --- In EthiopiaAAR@yahoogroups.com, "traceydc2002" <traceydc2002@>> wrote:> > > Can you (or anyone else who is a CHSFS client) explaing thebirthing> > center project a bit more.  I have seen references onethiopiaadopt> > to an agency opening a crisis pregnancy center or birthingcenter,> > but never heard which agency or what the real story was. Giventhe> > high maternal mortality rate, I can see a need.  However, havingan> > adoption agency involved does raise some big flags for me giventhe> > interest of the agency in completing adoptions and the hugedemand> > for infants as oung as possible as soon as posible.> >> > Tracey> > AP 2006 (WHFC)> > Tracey,> As I understand it, and given my info is coming from CHSFS so it> *could* be slanted, "birthing center" is really not the best wordfor> the facility that CHSFS has built. When we hear "birthing center"we> tend to think of the crisis pregnancy homes or unwed mother homesof> years ago.  What it really is is a hospital/medical center forwomen> giving birth or a "labor & delivery" center... it (ostensibly) has> nothing to do with adoption. As you said, such a facility iscertainly> needed.> CHSFS maintains that they were ask to build this facility by the> Ethiopian government and also maintains that it has nothing to dowith> adoption.> I know there has been a lot of talk about "birthing centers" on> EthiopiaAdopt and I really don't know if this is the one they areall> talking about or not.  I know when it was first announced manyformer> CHSFS clients (myself included) were very upset.  We saw it as amajor> ethical issue. We wanted to see something like CHSFS promising that> any child born there that was placed for adoption had to beprocessed> by another agency.  Nothing came of that that I know of as CHSFS> continued to state that no children came from this facility for> adoption.> If anyone has any other info, I would really like to hear it.> Danielle> AP- CHSFS