To get a sense of what the "adoption" business is really about, check out Bill Browder's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, in which he discusses the torture and murder of Sergei Magnitsky, whose name was lent to the Magnitsky Act, which imposed the sanctions on Russia that Putin desperately wants to overturn, and which a halt on U.S. adoptions of Russian children was intended as retaliation. The testimony is harrowing and should be seen as background for any discussion of adoption.