After an election season dominated by abortion rhetoric, leaders of adoption organizations hope that other states will follow the latest lead: Idaho enacted this year several laws to support modern private adoption and educate young people about this life-giving option — while assisting moms in choosing life.

When Dominique White went to a Texas Planned Parenthood after discovering she was pregnant at 17, a staff person told her that she had two options: either abort her child or raise him herself.  Believing that these were her only choices, she decided with the encouragement of her family to raise her eldest son as a single parent.