www.foreignaffairs.org/2003110faessay82611/ethan-b-kapstein/the-baby-trade.html

Well, I’m writing this blog entry about a slightly different topic than many may imagine; a more concerning one, I should think. The link above goes to a report on baby trafficking - a trade, as it were, that has been increasing in size in the last few years, as more Western people choose to adopt babies from poor countries. The notion of adopting these babies certainly does not sound all too bad - they would obviously have a better life in the West - yet the strict and often non-sensical restrictions that come with the process of legally adopting a child from poorer countries often has families in the West placed on rejection lists. It is here that black-market opportunists step in, offering to sell children. And though the end result is like an adoption, it is still an act that transforms human beings into tradable goods, i.e. slaves.