Heartbreaking!

This is a story that has been very highly concerning in the international adoption community as of late. This couple has traveled to China to get their 4-year-old little girl that they have adopted. They have went through the same process as Billy and I and are in China now to pick her up and bring her back to her forever family. However, recently the US CDC has passed a law that adopted children have to meet certain criteria as never before to protect from tuberculosis being transmitted from one country to another. The problem with this law is many, as most laws that are passed have some fine tuning. The problem with this law is there is no time for fine tuning for this family. The law in it's early stages require harsh criteria for adopted children while allowing everyone else to flow freely from country to country without the same restrictions. This child is being kept away from the parents that she has already bonded with wherein other children and individuals would still be allowed to travel. It seems that the US CDC has intentionally or nonintentionally made inconsistencies that greatly harm the adopted child waiting to be taken home. This child has passed many tests that has proven she is not contagious, if she indeed does have TB, which is even highly unlikely to be the case. Whatever anyones view on this subject, this child has been devastated as seen in the video I link below. The video has been posted on YouTube in two separate parts because it is 17 minutes long. If you would like to keep on the families status and what they have been going through while in China, you can go to their journal they have been keeping and read up at:
http://jayscruggs.livejournal.com/

Below are the youtube links both part I and part II if you wish to view. Make sure you have at least 18 minutes and a box of tissues. It is heartwrenching and I so hope before they get on that plane that something happens in that little girls favor that she is able to go home with them or that one could stay back with her. Due to financial difficulties with one of them at least losing their job, that seems highly unlikely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1FCAhL-WA Part I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkldZTw5f9g&NR=1 Part II

(I hope these links work but if not then go to YouTube and just type in the search engine Scruggs/adoption/China and it should bring up the links for you to view).

This family and little girl could definitely use our prayers over and over again. The people that need to iron out the wrinkles in this law also need our prayers so that this will not happen again because if it is not fixed then we will have this reoccurring in the international adoption community over and over again. If they still want to keep the same law then fine but they need to require the additional screenings that could stop the family from being put in place to only tear them apart again. Well...now that I have posted this and cried my eyes out, I will now go get my little girl out of bed and give her a hug like she has never had.