(Photo Queerty) Well, I was on the verge of getting part II of my current series finished up when I noted a story perhaps a bit more pressing to blog about. Let’s take a pause from our usual ongoing cavalcade of healthy white newborn obsessed procurement industry twists and turns to look instead at one […]
Special note to readers- I’m doing two posts tonight, so please also be sure to read Adoption subsidies for frozen corpses, more on the Maryland nightmare for part II of my coverage. (This third post is coming almost immediately on the heels of my second post following the developing Maryland story. I cut this writing […]
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