A record number of Alabama families adopted children from the foster care system during the 2018 fiscal year. Last week, governor Kay Ivey announced that 710 children were adopted out of the foster care system. This broke the previous record of 676 back in 2009 and was up from 509 in fiscal year 2017 and 502 in fiscal year 2016.
The announcement came just weeks after Governor Ivey signed a near-total ban on abortion, which many are calling the most restrictive abortion law in the country. The new law makes performing an abortion a felony and is punishable by up to 99 years in prison. The most controversial aspect of the law is that it does not contain exceptions for rape and incest, causing even televangelist Pat Robertson to say the law was “extreme,” CBN News reports.
Ivey made the announcement at the State Capitol and then posed for photos with children and their adoptive families. She said the record number of adoptions “sends a strong, wonderful message to all the foster care children in our state.” Many pundits have also noted that critics are wrong when they say pro-life advocates stop caring about life once it is outside the womb.
Almost 6,400 children are currently in foster care in Alabama, but close to 70 percent of those will return to their biological families. Department of Human Resources Commissioner Nancy Buckner said that children who do not return to their…
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