The mother and baby's homes were often run by nuns.

(Laughter)

Anyway, can we proceed with this adoption? So, so excited!

Hyun Sook stayed at Father Keene's, and her uncle agreed to let her stay there until the adoption went through.

Did you know that Claire was flying to L.A. to give him up for adoption?

I think she's an incredibly special child.

And this was Gene showing the uncle where Atlanta was on the map, where he lived.

Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

And that's followed by these lines about gay adoption

This is the last picture before Gene and Tim headed back.

Marriage is made in heaven.

It was the primary purpose of the social worker, the aim, to get the woman at her most vulnerable time in her entire life, to sign the adoption papers.

Is that a valid reason to be against gay marriage? No! Nope.

I was adopted.

And it is this

A full parental divorce.

When it did, he'd arrange to have it adopted.

Maybe you were adopted.

I'm against adoption.

But that's, again, shooting fish in a barrel, you know, right?

But, um, I was adopted.

This is a woman who is now working at the orphanage, whose son had been adopted.

Lyra Belacqua from Philip Pullman's Northern Lights was fostered

And so I suggested to the uncle that we go down and meet Father Keene, to find out how the adoption process worked.

Now by taking the biblical epithet abomination and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short circuits the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.

looking at small clusters of the body, these little pieces of tissue that were the trophoblasts coming off of the blastocyst, all of a sudden burrowing itself into the side of the uterus, saying, I'm here to stay.

We adopted a child.

I wanted to...adopt.

Why don't you just consider adopting?

He's going to adopt you.

This was movie day that she organized where all the kids went to the movies.

I

harry adopted him.

We could adopt.

How do we know? It's out, Vera.

I want to adopt, I want my own kids, I want to have foster kids.

And so DNA didn't become a useful molecule, and the lawyers didn't enter into the equation until 1973, 20 years later, when Boyer and Cohen in San Francisco and Stanford came up with their method of recombinant DNA, and Stanford patented it and made a lot of money.

Hyalograft C. We grow tissue from your own cells.

So I found out the name of every official on both the Korean and American side, and I photographed them, and told them how famous they were going to be when this book was done.

Everybody believed themselves to be doing the right thing by God and by the state for the big society, fast tracking adoption.

Now, for the next 11 years, all I know is that this woman, this birth woman, should have her eyes scratched out for not signing the adoption papers.

My wife wanted to adopt a child.

We adopted a child.

He had a pretty low wage job.

We haven't seen each other in forever, why on earth would you bring a little leech with you?