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Adoption Rates Spiking Post-Roe – Intercessors for America

Since Roe was overturned last year, countless lives have been saved. Praise God!

From 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.

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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. …

Just two months after Roe’s reversal, the Texas Department of Health & Human Services reported in January that there were zero elective legal abortions and just three legal abortions committed to save the life of the mother — down from 67 elective abortions the month before, and 5,706 in August 2021. As detailed by LifeSiteNews last month, Texas births rose 4.7% in 2022.

Fourteen states currently ban all or most abortions, with available data so far indicating those states could effectively wipe out an estimated 200,000 abortions a year, and discrediting abortion defenders’ long-running predictions that abortion bans would only force women to continue aborting through more dangerous and illicit means. …

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