^ge 8/The Battalion/Thursday, December 8, 1983
Adoption agency objects Warped
by Scott McCullar
to Cabbage Patch Kids
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Promo-
ional techniques employed by
>oleco Industries in marketing
he “Cabbage Patch Kids” show
it “simplistic, negative”
ipproach to the adoption pro-
ess, an adoption agency official
;aid Wednesday.
Patricia Dorner of the San
Antonio Adoption Awareness
Center said she plans to file a
formal letter of protest with Col-
eco by Friday, urging them to
modify their marketing
approach.
The dolls, said to be the hot
test gift item of the Christmas
season, are sold with a set of
adoption papers, which show
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“Adopted persons do not
come from the cabbage patch,
nor are they commodities for
the marketplace,” Dorner said.
“Coleco’s approach has offen
sive implications for birth fami
lies, adopted persons and adop
tive families.”
The advertising concept will
make adoptive children believe
they were chosen like a doll “off
the shelf,” she said. “There is a
burden in feeling you were
chosen. You think ‘what are the
possibilites of being un-chosen?’
“The entire theme is one of
distortion and mockery of the
adoption process,” Dorner said.
“It’s a simplistic, negative kind
of thing. Coleco is really doing a
great disservice.”
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WASHINGTON — Worried
veterinarians are considering di
alysis to save America’s female
giant panda, Ling-Ling, from a
sudden and life-threatening
kidney disorder, the chief doc
tor at the National Zoo said
Wednesday.
Doctors are trying to figure
out how the furry clack and
white, 227-pound panda con
tracted the kidney problem and
severe anemia “that could lead
to her death,” Dr. Mitchell Bush
told a new conference.
They said the problem could
be related to her delivery last
spring of the nation’s first panda
cub, but are awaiting further test
results. Ling-Ling, and her
mate, Hsing-Hsing, were gifts
from China following President
Nixon’s 1972 visit.
“Until two weeks ago, we we
ren’t suspicious of any prob
lems,” Bush said. “This is very
perplexing. She doesn’t look
sick.”
He said doctors are consider
ing dialysis to help the panda’s
two kidneys rid 14-year-old
Ling-Ling’s system of waste, but
cautioned, “We’d like to point
out that dialysis is for the short
term.”
Bush said the expensive and
time-consuming procedure
would not be feasible as a pro
longed treatment. Dialysis in
volves filtering the blood
through a machine and is fre
quently used for human kidney
patients.
In 1979, doctors at the Ueno
Zoo in Tokyo used dialysis to
treat a female panda, Lan-Lan,
who died of a kidney ailment
anyway. Lan-Lan’s death
appeared to be related to pre
gnancy.
Bush and chief zoo patholog
ist Dr. Richard Montah spent 90
minutes Wednesday at the 16th
in danger
'go
Society of Nephrology — or kid
ney studies — consulting doc
tors on the panda’s acute condi
tion.
“We’ve pretty much ruled out
a kidney transplant,” Bush
added. "Our hope is that the kid
ney disorder is not irreversible.”
Ling-Ling — who received
blood transfusion Tuesdayfra
11 sing-Using — was restingafu
a morning meal, panda ke([e
Barbara Bingham said,
‘‘Until two weeks ago,
we weren’t suspicious
of any problems, 'fliis
is very perplexing.
She doesn ’t look sick. ”
The panda, who also is
antibiotics, gave birth laslii}
mer to a 4.8 ounce inaleoilijK
it died three hours laterofais
spiiatory infection.
Zoo officials said doctors
would probably use a kidney
from Hsing-Hsing or another
giant panda if they did a trans
plant. Pandas, like other mam
mals, have two kidneys.
At the zoo’s Panda House,
The surprise birth was4
first for Ling-Ling and Hii$
Using, after eight yearsoflai
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next year.
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