I usually enjoy reading the Drawn and Quartered cartoons in The Tribune's Sunday Opinion section. It is fun and interesting to see political cartoons from around the nation.

However, I was appalled at the Pat Oliphant cartoon in the Feb. 6 Tribune. It shows a nurse holding two "separated at birth" infants ("Baby Palin" and "Baby Bachman") and a GOP elephant father who says to the nurse, "I'd like to put them both up for adoption." This cartoon implies that if children are bad or unwanted then they should be gotten rid of by having someone adopt them.

As an adoptive mother of two children, this notion is highly offensive. My children are loved. Both were placed with my husband and me by birth mothers who loved them but who were unable to care for them.

Adoption is a wonderful thing; it should never be placed in a negative light. Children are not trash who are adopted because they are unwanted — they are adopted because they are loved.

The editors of The Tribune showed poor judgment in reprinting this cartoon.

Carrie Huntsman-Jones

Salt Lake City