The Adoption Law Firm Files Brief in United States Supreme Court to Allow Children to Be Adopted Instead of Dismembered

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The Adoption Law Firm Files Brief in United States Supreme Court to Allow Children to Be Adopted Instead of Dismembered

Thankfully, a lot of folks have been outraged by New York’s recent abortion law.  It’s brought one of our countries most wicked practices to light.  It helps start the discussion about these things happening in our own backyard. In Alabama, an average of 16 babies are horrifically killed for profit by abortion doctors every day.
The Adoption Law Firm was recently invited to fight back in partnership with Personhood Alabama and The Foundation For Moral Law.
In the underlying case, the Tuscaloosa abortion mill challenged Alabama’s ban on D&E abortions. As you may know, this method of murder involves ripping the baby apart limb by limb until it bleeds to death. Despite arguments to the contrary, the Eleventh Circuit held that it was constrained to follow the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions and hold that the law was unconstitutional. The State petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari.
In our brief, we took two kills shots at Roe. First, our team unpacked the Personhood argument, which explains that all human life is worth protecting – across all stages of development. Second, we argued that if the Court wasn’t persuaded, then it should just overrule Roe altogether. Finally, in a section specifically crafted around adoption and foster care, we reminded the Court that there are many people in Alabama who would gladly adopt the babies who would be saved from abortion if the Court ruled in our favor.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time that anyone has asked the Supreme Court to overrule Roe, or at least hold that the States can establish the personhood of the unborn, since Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed. We obviously should not put all our hope in the Supreme Court. But we might have the fifth vote needed now to end the Court’s abortion jurisprudence.
Please join me in praying however that the Court grants certiorari and overrules Roe. “The fervent, effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.” James 5:16.
Will you be ready to step up to the plate if they do? That’s 16 babies a day that will need loving, stable homes in Alabama.
You can read the brief here Marshall v. WAWC Brief.

 

About the author

12278871_866045895926_7477321868643051748_nSam McLure is the Founder of The Adoption Law Firm.

Sam and his wife Mary Beth were inspired to establish The Adoption Law Firm during the process of adopting their first son, Robi (read more about their experience on the blog, Go Get Robi).

Sam and Mary Beth were exposed to the great need for loving families to adopt abandoned children at home and around the world.  They began to dream of a law center that could zealously advocate for children to be placed in loving homes.  Eventually, that dream became a reality.

The Adoption Law Firm exists to zealously advocate for orphaned children to be adopted into loving homes.

Samuel J. McLure, Esq.

EDUCATION

  • Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
    J.D., Cum Laude
  • Huntingdon College
    B.A. Business Administration – International Business

EXPERIENCE

  • Alabama Attorney General Candidate (2018 Election Cycle)
  • The Adoption Law Firm (2011 – Current)
    Founder, Attorney
  • Lifeline Children’s Services (2015 – 2016)
    Senior Legal Counsel
  • Sasser, Sefton, Brown, Tipton, & Davis (Fall 2012)
    Law Clerk – Corporate Litigation
  • Jones Walker (Summer 2010)
    Law Clerk – Banking & Finance
  • Supreme Court of Alabama (Spring 2010)
    Law Clerk Externship – Justice Smith
  • Prof. Matt Vega – Jones School of Law (Fall 2009 – Spring 2010)
    Research Assistant – Alien Tort Statute
  • Office of the Attorney General of Alabama (Summer 2009)
    Law Clerk Internship – White Collar Crime Division

PUBLICATIONS

  • Alabama’s Political Candidates and Their Capacity to Care For Orphans, Alabama Political Reporter (April 25, 2017).
  • The End of Orphan Care, Archdeacon Books (June 8, 2016).
  • Absent Biological Fathers in Adoption: Noticing the Nuance of Notice, Faulkner Law Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pg. 305 (Spring 2015).
  • Conviction and Contentment: Surveying Alabama’s Strategies to Care for Abused and Neglected Children, Alabama Today (May 22, 2015).
  • State Constitutional Personhood Amendments and the Promotion of Justice in Alabama, Regent Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2012).
  • Embracing Orphan Care & Adoption, River Region’s Journey, at pg. 22 (February 2012).
  • What is the Cost of Adoption?, River Region’s Journey, at pg. 26 (February 2012).
  • Adoption, Sav-A-Life of Montgomery, Inc., Vol. 26, Issue 11 (November 2011).

 

The End of Orphan Care, by Sam McLure

The End of Orphan Care, now available through Amazon, is perhaps the most comprehensive work on orphan care, to date.

Samuel E. Upchurch, Jr., Founder and Chairman of the Board Oakworth Capital Bank, states that:

“Sam McLure makes a scholarly case for Christians everywhere to follow the admonitions in James 1:27 to visit the orphans in their afflictions.  McLure paints a picture which expands the definition of “orphans” and the meaning of “visit” and calls on the Church to care for the unborn, the fatherless and the at risk youth everywhere. I began reading this book to write an endorsement but, as one with an adopted grandchild, found much historical and theological support for adoption.”