{"id":1524,"date":"2016-04-11T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:27:10","slug":"crisis-pregnancy-adoption-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"crisis pregnancy, adoption, Tanzania&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently interviewed a couple in Lima, Ohio, who adopted two babies\u00a0from mothers who were in crisis pregnancy.\u00a0 The couple are Christians.\u00a0 The wife said: &#8220;God adopts us into His family,&#8221; so it only stands to reason we should do the same for others.\u00a0 Good point.\u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!life-issues\/c1fns\">Life Issues position paper<\/a> is heavy with helping people in &#8220;crisis pregnancy,&#8221; while also working exhaustively to change some of the systemic causes (poverty, dysfunctional families&#8230;) that leads to abortion.\u00a0 And not just in this country, either.\u00a0<strong> Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 This wife&#8217;s parents were missionaries in Tanzania for 12 years.\u00a0 And she saw, firsthand, the &#8220;heart-wrenching poverty&#8221; and desperation of parents just trying to keep their children fed in a country where people work extremely hard all day for a meager $1 to $2.\u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!foreign-policy\/c1k4n\">foreign policy stance <\/a>spins around getting a lot more help to countries like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently interviewed a couple in Lima, Ohio, who adopted two babies\u00a0from mothers who were in crisis pregnancy.\u00a0 The couple are Christians.\u00a0 The wife said: &#8220;God adopts us into His family,&#8221; so it only stands to reason we should do <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1524\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}