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Despite just discovering that she was newly pregnant, Barrett decided to go ahead with the adoption, reasoning 'what greater thing can you do than raise children'
NEW YORK, September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Tucker Carlson has recently highlighted Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s decision to adopt a Haitian boy within hours of receiving news she was pregnant with her fifth child.
Amid his remarks defending Barrett against liberal hostility on this past Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight show, Carlson played a 2019 clip of Barrett in which she recounts how she and her husband went through with their decision to adopt their son John Peter. Barrett had previously given the play-by-play in talks at her alma mater, Notre Dame.
“We had started the process for John Peter, but for a variety of reasons, they told us it wasn’t going to happen,” Barrett said.
“So the paperwork was just languishing, and they had said he wasn’t going to come home. In December I had said, ‘We gotta just close the book on this, it looks like it’s not gonna happen. It had been dragging on for two or three years at this point. So we had mentally and emotionally moved on. And then the earthquake happened,” she continued.
“And one of the paperwork snafus that had held it up was on the US side, and they lifted that requirement and said any children who had adoptions in process could leave. And they called us and said would you still be willing to take him? This was early January. We said yes.”
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Tucker shares Amy Coney Barrett’s inspiring adoption story of Haitian boy
NEW YORK, September 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Tucker Carlson has recently highlighted Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s decision to adopt a Haitian boy within hours of receiving news she was pregnant with her fifth child.
Amid his remarks defending Barrett against liberal hostility on this past Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight show, Carlson played a 2019 clip of Barrett in which she recounts how she and her husband went through with their decision to adopt their son John Peter. Barrett had previously given the play-by-play in talks at her alma mater, Notre Dame.
“We had started the process for John Peter, but for a variety of reasons, they told us it wasn’t going to happen,” Barrett said.
“So the paperwork was just languishing, and they had said he wasn’t going to come home. In December I had said, ‘We gotta just close the book on this, it looks like it’s not gonna happen. It had been dragging on for two or three years at this point. So we had mentally and emotionally moved on. And then the earthquake happened,” she continued.
“And one of the paperwork snafus that had held it up was on the US side, and they lifted that requirement and said any children who had adoptions in process could leave. And they called us and said would you still be willing to take him? This was early January. We said yes.”
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Tucker shares Amy Coney Barrett’s inspiring adoption story of Haitian boy
