Mothers of Intention — Are We Going to Let Haitian Orphans Die?

As a mom by adoption to the fabulous PunditGirl, it was difficult for me to watch all the footage in the past days about the many orphans in Haiti — especially the ones who have parents who are just waiting to bring them home — stuck not only in the nightmare of earthquake itself, but in the bureaucratic mess that, it appears, could prevent them from being united with their adoptive families.

The government building in Port-au-Prince that housed all the official adoption paperwork crumbled in the earthquake.  Many of those who worked in that building reportedly died.  And there doesn’t seem to be a rush here in the U.S. by the State Department or Homeland Security to ease the paperwork burden to allow these children to enter the country without having crossed all the ‘t’s and dotted all the ‘i’s.  Some in Miami, however, are trying to plan a major rescue effort for these children and the thousands more who have been orphaned as a result of the earthquake.  But shouldn’t the orphans be some of the first to get relief?

As my friend Amie at MammaLoves … put it on Twitter:

Why is it that healthy, white, well-dressed adults were being shuttled out of Haiti and those orphans are

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