PLEASE OUR ADOPTION IS AT RISK OF ENDING!!!!!! PLEASE READ THIS

** This has been taken by other blogs with permission!!! Please copy the letter and email it to your state senator and congressman. Please know that any day the Ukraine Parliament is going to have a second vote and if it passes and the president signs off, ALL ADOPTIONS STOP, INCLUDING THE ONES IN PROGRESS, MEANING EMMA AND ASHER WILL NOT BECOME OUR CHILDREN!!

I am pleading with you to first pray to the God that He would not let this pass, and that He would allow us and the others who are so close to getting their kids to finish our adoptions. Second Please do this. It will only take 5 minutes and you could possible save thousands of Ukrainian Orphans lives. Please, Please, Please!!!!!


Please take a moment to write your congressmen/women, the state dept, whoever will listen and then encourage your friends and family to do the same! Thank you!

Below you'll find a letter that you can use or by all means, write your own.
To send a letter to your congressmen/women:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

To send a letter to your senators just click on the state and follow the link:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


Dear (name),

On November 2, 2010, the Ukrainian parliament voted to proceed with voting on legislation that would halt all international adoptions until inter-country adoption agreements are in place (see the State Dept. announcement at http://adoption.state.gov/news/ukraine.html) . At this point, all that is needed for this to become law is one more vote in Ukrainian parliament and a signature by the Ukrainian president. This could happen any day.


If it does, many families and innocent children will be greatly affected. Many of these families are adopting older children who have a very short time-frame before no longer being eligible for adoption. American families adopting these children in the NEXT MONTHS offer them what may be their only opportunity at a normal and productive life free of crime, prostitution, or institutionalization due to illnesses that are treatable in the United States. I personally know one of these families.

I am writing to you to URGE you to act quickly on this matter by completing two actions. First, contact your Ukrainian counterparts and request a consideration of revision of the law to allow adoptions to proceed while the agreement is being drafted (as was done in Russia). Secondly, work with your colleagues in congress to begin drafting this agreement so that it is ready to go in the event the law passes.