“Adoption Story” September 28, 2025April 22, 2018 by Tom Faranda On NR Online. It’s a lovely story but the adoption to abortion ratio is very sad. Whatever your politics on abortion, it’s hard to look in the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, a birth mother, and an adoptive mother and see anything but courage and gratitude and love — and the life-and-death situation that Kelly and that innocent unborn were facing.