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  • On Adopting From Utah and Other “Adoption Friendly” States

    We have posted several news articles about birth father’s rights recently, and many of these cases involve adoptions in Utah. In some of these cases, birth mothers have deceived the fathers, signing adoption papers without notifying them that they had gone to Utah or that the child(ren) had been born. We have worked personally with [...]

    Ethica responds to Center for Adoption Policy and New York Law School’s discussion of Ethica’s legislative proposal to combat trafficking for the purposes of adoption

    Below is a letter Ethica submitted in follow up to the Center for Adoption Policy and the New York Law School’s recent discussion of Ethica’s legislative proposal to combat trafficking for the purposes of adoption.  Ethica continues to encourage organizations to assist us in working to combat trafficking in adoption, especially utilizing legislative approaches that [...]

    Volunteer for Ethica or Donate to Support our Cause!

    Dear Friends, Happy 2012!  We hope your New Year is starting out well. Here at Ethica, we finished out 2011 very quietly as we contemplated our positioning for 2012.  In 2011, we decided to shift our focus from crisis intervention to policy advocacy on a national level, and we worked diligently with officials in Washington [...]

    Stop Trafficking Into Adoption Today

    Dear Friends, Ethica urgently needs your help. This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be marking up the Trafficking Victim Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011, a lifesaving measure that establishes human trafficking as a crime in the U.S.  Ethica supports this measure, but we also think it could be strengthened with a tiny, one-line amendment [...]