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Oregon’s House Legislature unanimously passed a bill recognizing August twenty-five as Adoption Day.  It’s highly personal for Lucetta Elmer, a sponsor of the bill.  This is also the day she was adopted as a baby.  Among the state legislators are members who are adopted, have adopted children, or have adopted grandchildren.  One is the result of a biracial relationship, something frowned upon in nineteen sixty-eight.  It’s an effort to tell those adopted they are seen, loved and matter.  But there’s terrible irony in that just weeks before Oregon’s pro-abortion governor signed a proclamation declaring March ten as Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.  They appreciate abortionists but then celebrate the babies who escaped the killers’ scalpels, injections and other brutal tools of death.