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In re: Gill - 老澳门开奖结果 the American College of Pediatricians

Document Date: July 16, 2009
Affiliate: 老澳门开奖结果 of Florida

When the American Academy of Pediatrics passed its policy statement supporting second-parent adoptions by lesbian and gay parents in 2002, a fringe group of approximately 60 of the AAP鈥檚 more than 60,000 members formed the 鈥淎merican College of Pediatricians.鈥1 This group has been described by one of its charter members as a 鈥淛udeo-Christian, traditional-values organization,鈥 that is open to pediatric medical professionals of all religions 鈥渨ho hold to [the ACP鈥檚] core beliefs,鈥 which are that 鈥渓ife begins at conception, and that the traditional family unit, headed by an opposite-sex couple, poses far fewer risk factors in the adoption and raising of children.鈥2 This group issued a position statement in January 2004 supporting the 鈥渁ge-old prohibition on homosexual parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or by reproductive manipulation.鈥3

1. Pamela P. Wong, 鈥淣ew Pediatricians Group Blasts AAP Endorsement of 鈥楪ay鈥 Parenting,鈥 Concerned Women for America, 2003, (December 19, 2005). See also 鈥淐harter Member Physicians,鈥 American College of Pediatricians, 2004, (19 December 2005)

2. Roy Waller and Linda Nicolosi, 鈥淧ediatricians鈥 Groups Differ on Attitudes Toward Homosexual Parenting,鈥 National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, (September 2004), (2 December 2005).

3. American College of Pediatricians, 鈥淗omosexual Parenting: Is It Time for Change?鈥, 2004 (19 December 2005)

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