No child is an accident. As American poet Carl Sandburg put it, “A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
God in His benevolent providence doesn’t make accidents — He makes miracles.
And every child is a God-given miracle.
“Behold,” Psalm 127:3 exclaims, “children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”
This truth of the sanctity of human life, born and unborn, has driven much of my career in the ministry of law and public service. And in my family life, too: the Lord has blessed me and my wife with 7 children. Here is a little bit about my story.
After attending a Christian law school in Virginia, Regent University School of Law, I joined the staff of Chief Justice Roy Moore — and would serve as a law clerk and then a staff attorney during a historic time when the Ten Commandments monument was displayed at the judicial building.
After, I joined the Foundation for Moral Law, a religious-liberties organization in Montgomery, where I defended constitutional rights, religious freedom, and the rights of the unborn. I filed arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals and state courts around the country.
When Judge Moore returned to the Chief Justice’s office in 2013, I joined him as his Chief of Staff. Later I joined Justice Tom Parker’s chambers as his staff attorney, and then became Parker’s Chief of Staff when Parker served as Chief Justice from 2019 until his recent retirement in January 2025.
With 14 total years of service at the Supreme Court of Alabama serving two chief justices, I am honored to now join the Adoption Law Firm with my years of legal and judicial experience — especially my unique perspective and understanding of Alabama’s court system.
Working for a state supreme court gives you a unique perspective atop the judicial branch. Having reviewed thousands of cases and observed dozens of oral arguments, I can say with confidence that Alabama has many fine attorneys who make strong arguments advocating for their clients. And then there are, well, others. So, I’ve seen the good, and I’ve seen the bad — and, more importantly, I know the difference.
I also serve on the board of a regional homeschool network, Ezekiel Academy, through which my family and children enjoy fellowship and sports like basketball and soccer. Many of our homeschool and church friends are adoptive and foster families providing loving homes for children that were in great need of a loving home. Seeing my children play with their children courtside or field-side is a beautiful picture of the kingdom of God. It’s messy and loud, but it’s family.
Today, too many parents and families have bought the lie that children are a burden, or expendable, or accessories to simply put on or take off. Too many children are raised in broken or fatherless homes — or they have no real home at all. Children need someone to care for them, to love them, to tell them God loves them, and to fight for them.
They need a mom and a dad, and they need the Church of Jesus Christ.
In Psalm 82:3-4, God calls us to “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
I’m so grateful for The Adoption Law Firm that is dedicated to fight for justice for the weak and fatherless and to deliver children from the wicked. Children need someone to treat them like the miracle of God that they are.
Every day I wear over my heart a shiny little pin that represents two tiny baby feet. With two tiny feet and 10 tiny toes, the “Precious Feet” pin replicates the exact size of an unborn baby’s feet at around 10 weeks old. It’s a small but simple reminder of the precious, vulnerable, miraculous, God-given gift that is each child in the womb and in the world.
I’m so excited to offer my 24 years of legal experience, appellate expertise — and maybe a few dad jokes — to serve and defend children, families, and those foster and adoptive heroes throughout the state of Alabama.
~Ben DuPré, Esq.
