Trump: Putting the Option in Adoption, by Tony Perkins

By Tony Perkins, Patriot Post, Nov. 5, 2019

“Leaving the hospital without my daughter was the single hardest thing I’d ever done,” Adrian remembers. She thinks about watching the hospital clock tick down to the moment she’d have to say goodbye. In those final minutes, she thought her heart might shatter. “I was broken.” She swaddled the tiny fingers and toes one last time before a hand came to rest on hers. It was her adoption social worker. Adrian looked into her face and knew she was doing the right thing.

This wasn’t supposed to happen to people like her. A junior at a Christian college, Adrian remembers the terror of holding a positive pregnancy test in her hands. “I recoiled in fear and shame,” she says. How would she explain this to her parents? “I held several leadership positions at the Christian university I attended. I was a Resident Assistant in a dormitory. I was an editor for our campus newspaper, and editor-in-chief of our school magazine. I was an A-student… An unplanned pregnancy was not part of my meticulously planned life… Loneliness enveloped me.”  …

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