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Handful of Canadian families that were scheduled to adopt children from Russia are now raising voice about their plans being put at risk since the country’s highest court issued a memo allegedly prohibiting all adoptions to countries that have officially recognized same-sex marriages. Russia has already been pressured and is facing immense international criticism for its treatment of gay and lesbian citizens ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics, which begin next month.
In a letter authored by Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, to his Russian counterpart in December, he raised concerns about a recent law that makes it illegal for anyone to provide information about homosexual relationships to minors. Consequently, another piece of legislation passed in last summer made all international adoptions illegal to same-sex couples and single people. Almost three Canadian couples were assured at the time that their adoptions, which were already in process when the law was passed, would not be affected by it since they were in heterosexual relationships. However, a memo issued by Russia’s Supreme Court in late September has now instructed all Russian judges to interpret the law as applying to all adoptions from any country that recognizes same-sex marriages, despite the sexual orientation of the adoptive parents.
Hence, the three Canadian families are now planning to address an open letter to Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, on Wednesday morning and urge him to convince Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to allow the small number of Canadian adoptions already in their final stages to get through with an exemption.
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