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<p>The National Council for Adoption has launched a web campaign called <a href="http://www.ichooseadoption.org/">iChooseAdoption.org</a>. The heart of the campaign is a series of short YouTube videos featuring birth mothers telling their stories of placing their children for adoption.</p>
<p>To say they are “real” seems too flippant. But they <em>are </em>real: happiness, pain, joy, shame, certitude (or lack thereof), and everything else a birth mother experiences is revealed in the stories of these women.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtu.be/mdnQmyHQZzk" target="_blank"><strong>http://youtu.be/mdnQmyHQZzk</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/15-and-pregnant-i-chose-adoption-video" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/15-and-pregnant-i-chose-adoption-video</strong></a></p>
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<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Adoption Stories</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=587" title="Permanent Link: Adoption Stories" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (1344 words, estimated 5:23  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":587,"date":"2013-03-18T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2013-09-10T10:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:06:30","slug":"adoption-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Council for Adoption has launched a web campaign called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ichooseadoption.org\/\">iChooseAdoption.org<\/a>. 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But they\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>real: happiness, pain, joy, shame, certitude (or lack thereof), and everything else a birth mother experiences is revealed in the stories of these women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/mdnQmyHQZzk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/youtu.be\/mdnQmyHQZzk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blog\/15-and-pregnant-i-chose-adoption-video\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blog\/15-and-pregnant-i-chose-adoption-video<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=587\" title=\"Permanent Link: Adoption Stories\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(1344 words, estimated 5:23  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Adoption Stories<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=587\" title=\"Permanent Link: Adoption Stories\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (1344 words, estimated 5:23  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adoption Stories - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=587\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adoption Stories - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; The National Council for Adoption has launched a web campaign called\u00a0iChooseAdoption.org. 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