Thu Jul 6, 2023 – 4:11 pm EDTThu Jul 6, 2023 – 5:29 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – One year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade allowed pro-life states to begin prohibiting abortions again, adoption workers in Texas are reporting a substantial rise in babies being given the opportunity for life with new families.
Mark Melson, president and CEO of the Texas-based Gladney Center for Adoption, told NBC News this week that his organization has observed a 30% rise in infant domestic adoptions over the past year, and a 55% rise in calls from pregnant women asking about adoption.
“In conversations we’ve had with our birth mothers, some have indicated that had they had an ability to get an abortion, they at least would have considered it,” Melson said, attributing the rises primarily to changes in abortion laws, with the decline of concern about COVID-19 infections and restrictions a possible secondary factor.
National Council for Adoption communications director Kristen Hamilton was more circumspect, telling NBC there has been a “lot of variances” observed by adoption agencies in newly-restrictive states. “In some cases, they are seeing an uptick in the number of babies that
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