In re: Gill - About the American College of Pediatricians

Document Date: July 16, 2009
Affiliate: ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµof Florida

When the American Academy of Pediatrics passed its policy statement supporting second-parent adoptions by lesbian and gay parents in 2002, a fringe group of approximately 60 of the AAP’s more than 60,000 members formed the “American College of Pediatricians.�1 This group has been described by one of its charter members as a “Judeo-Christian, traditional-values organization,� that is open to pediatric medical professionals of all religions “who hold to [the ACP’s] core beliefs,� which are that “life begins at conception, and that the traditional family unit, headed by an opposite-sex couple, poses far fewer risk factors in the adoption and raising of children.�2 This group issued a position statement in January 2004 supporting the “age-old prohibition on homosexual parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or by reproductive manipulation.�3

1. Pamela P. Wong, “New Pediatricians Group Blasts AAP Endorsement of ‘Gay’ Parenting,� Concerned Women for America, 2003, (December 19, 2005). See also “Charter Member Physicians,� American College of Pediatricians, 2004, (19 December 2005)

2. Roy Waller and Linda Nicolosi, “Pediatricians’ Groups Differ on Attitudes Toward Homosexual Parenting,� National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, (September 2004), (2 December 2005).

3. American College of Pediatricians, “Homosexual Parenting: Is It Time for Change?�, 2004 (19 December 2005)

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