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The right has been, and it is certainly something that we heard from people like justice amy coney barrett, who said that abortion is unnecessary because we have safe haven laws, and an adoption system in this country. what would you say to people who say adoption is the only solution and abortion is unnecessary? >> i would say adoption has not worked. we have over 120,000 foster youth nationwide that is eligible for adoption today. so if adoption was the key to solving this problem, we wouldn't have wait lists of children that are waiting for loving families in the child welfare system. also,...

Members are advocating with decision-makers around the country to change those outcomes. foster youth are overwhelmingly placed in juvenile detention facilities. are trafficked out of placement homes. the average wait for a foster had to be adopted his four years nationwide. this is going to just exacerbate the already current crisis that the child welfare system is in. >> one of the arguments here on the right has been, and it is certainly something that we heard from people like justice amy coney barrett, who said that abortion is unnecessary because we have safe haven laws, and an adoption ...

Problem that they separated these families and they have no way to get them together. >> so what does happen to the kids who they still haven't rekwlu nighted with their parents? what happens. >> those kids in the united states, at some point if they're never going to be able to reunite these parents, they're going to end up entering the information ter care adoption system in the united states depending on what state they're in and what judicial process that could be. maybe they're lucky enough to find a family member that is related to that kid, to those children here in the united states. b...

Being able to help us in this situation, they are set up to do this on some level, but they can't use the same test that they would use if they're getting private funding. this is government funtding going to help these kids get back together with their parents. they should not be thrown into the foster care system, into the adoption system. they should be separately processed quickly and that is, you know, this so-called sham executive order that the president signed did nothing to actually reunite these kids with their parents, but on top of that, as you said, allows for indefinite family im...