On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This case had to do with the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. The state of Mississippi had a law that banned abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. In this court decision, the…
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Recently, TIME published an article singling out and outlining the perceived role of Adoption Network Law Center (ANLC) in the domestic newborn adoption industry in the United States. As a team, we are deeply saddened by the Time article. It has affected each and every one of us. We strive and will always strive to…
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Every November, in honor of National Adoption Month, Adoption Network Law Center (ANLC) asks hopeful Adopting Parents to share their stories of what led them to adoption. Adoption Network Law Center reviews all of the stories and selects one family to receive pro bono ANLC services. Today, on National Adoption Day, ANLC is excited to…
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A few years ago, Britney Perez was a typical Hispanic teenager. She was in her first semester of her senior year in high school. She had just turned 18. She was dating a boy from the neighborhood and suddenly found herself pregnant. She’d never had a job and didn’t have a driver’s license; how would…
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I am proud to be building my family through open adoption. As hopeful adoptive parents, Sean and I were thrilled to have the opportunity to meet our daughter’s birth mother, Paige, during her pregnancy. Just one week after we were matched, Sean and I flew to Paige’s small hometown and met her at a restaurant. …
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“We would have never made it without all the help and support we got from other adoptive families and birth families who had gone through it (and survived).” Every family’s adoption journey is different with unique circumstances and challenges along the way. And every family needs a different level of support at every stage of…
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“We love our birth mother and aren’t threatened by Walter loving her too.”“We are so grateful to ANLC. We feel like the luckiest family alive.” What led you to adoption? We spent 5 years trying to have a baby, but struggled with fertility issues and unsuccessful pregnancies. We thought about adoption, but struggled with the…
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“The struggle is a part of the story.” This rings true for so many families like the Willmarths, whose adoption story is one of heartbreak and then magnificent healing. David and Melissa Willmarth were the lucky winners of our first annual, 2012 Pro Bono Services in honor of National Adoption Month. “We tried to have…
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