Media inquiries — pr@lifelinechild.org
Press Room
For media inquiries, interview requests, quotes, or to speak with one of our experts, please contact us at pr@lifelinechild.org.
Press Releases & Statements
Updates Related to Lifeline Children’s Services
August 11, 2026
Lifeline Laments Passage of Massachusetts Abortion Law
August 11, 2026: Lifeline Children’s Services laments the passage of a Massachusetts law that expands access to abortion up to…
July 22, 2026
Lifeline Urges Policymakers to Prohibit Medicaid Funding to Abortion Providers
July 22, 2026: We are disappointed that a permanent prohibition on Medicaid funding for abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood…
July 14, 2026
Lifeline Children’s Services Applauds Trump Administration for Rescinding Foster Care Placement Rule
July 14, 2026: Lifeline Children’s Services applauds the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the 2024 designated placement rule, which required…
July 7, 2026
Lifeline Children’s Services Responds to Restoration of Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood
July 7, 2026: “We are deeply disappointed that Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood have been restored following the expiration of…
July 2, 2026
Lifeline Children’s Services Calls on White House, Congress to Permanently End Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood
July 2, 2026: As our nation prepares to celebrate 250 years of the promise of life and liberty this Independence Day, Lifeline…
June 10, 2026
Lifeline Applauds Bethany Christian Services for Reinstating Statement of Faith
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media contact: pr@lifelinechild.org Lifeline Applauds Bethany Christian Services for Reinstating Statement of Faith BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 10, 2026 — Lifeline…
June 1, 2026
Lifeline Children’s Services Now Licensed in El Salvador as Second U.S. Accredited Adoption Services Provider
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media contact: pr@lifelinechild.org Lifeline Children’s Services Now Licensed in El Salvador as Second U.S. Accredited Adoption Services Provider …
May 13, 2026
Lifeline Announces Worthy Mentor and Mentee Guide: Spanish Edition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media contact: pr@lifelinechild.org Lifeline Announces Worthy Mentor and Mentee Guide: Spanish Edition BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 13, 2025—Lifeline Children’s…
April 16, 2026
Lifeline Celebrates Passage of South Carolina Pregnancy Resource Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media contact: pr@lifelinechild.org Lifeline Celebrates Passage of South Carolina Pregnancy Resource Act MT. PLEASANT, S.C., April 16,…
April 6, 2026
Lifeline Children’s Services Applauds SOCTUS Decision in Counseling Case
April 6, 2026: “Counselors across the United States are breathing a sigh of relief this week following the Supreme Court’s decision in…
In The News
Take a look at our news features.
- The Imprint: LGBTQ+ Advocates Brace for Consequences as National Christian Foster Care Agency Reverses Inclusion Policy
- 1819 News: ‘Deeply disappointed’: Birmingham’s Lifeline Children’s Services laments restoration of Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood
- Savannah Morning News: Advocates brace as major foster agency reverses LGBTQ inclusion policy
- 280 Living: Lifeline Children’s Services celebrates China adoption program
- Baptist Press: ‘19 in 19’ campaign takes Lifeline Children’s Services on road trip for women, children
- The Times Examiner: Lifeline Children’s Services Hosts Free Father’s Day Family Fest in Greenville
- Pregnancy Help News: Pregnancy help leaders equipped to engage lawmakers and others at Capitol Hill training
- The Colombia Star: Spring Valley Rotary grants awarded to 13 local non-profits
- The Post and Courier: Foster care need
- The Washington Post: A Supreme Court justice’s personal ties to Haiti highlight stakes in asylum case
- Kansas for Life Podcast: Pulling back the curtain on adoption and foster care
- LifeNews: South Carolina House Passes Bill Supporting Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
- The Autry Benton Show: Interview with Kathryn Barnhill
- Baptist Press: Birmingham’s first Serve Tour sees big impact
- The Homewood Star: Better together: The Giffin family’s journey of faith and adoption
- The Alabama Baptist: Birmingham-area churches host city’s first Serve Tour, see big impact
- The Alabama Baptist: Save the Storks mobile medical clinics encourage life, spread gospel
- The Daily Signal: Christian Agency Calls on Trump Administration to Reinstate Adoption Visa Exception
- The Gospel Coalition: How to Raise Pro-Life Kids in 2026
- WACH Fox 57: Lifeline Children’s Services to hold adoption info meeting
- Faith Talk 99.5: Open Heart Open Minds, The Life Line to Adoption
- Make it Ordinary: Overcoming Hurdles to Adoption with the Doweys and Lifeline Children’s Services
- Faith on View: Visa Freeze Crisis: Adoptive families face painful delays and confusion
- Christianity Today: Trump’s Visa Suspension Leaves Adoptive Families in Limbo
- Baptist Press: International adoptions resume on a case-by-case approval basis under new exception
- Conscious Magazine: Waiting for Jordyn, a Resilient Little Girl. My Family’s Journey to Adoption. This is My Story.
- We Love Life Podcast: After Roe: The Mission Did Not End
- Baptist Press: Visa bans halt international adoptions for at least 300 U.S. families
- WORLD: Know a pregnant woman in need?
- Gospel Coalition: How to Fight for Life When Abortions are Invisible
- WORLD: False positives: State lawmakers and hospital administrators rethink prenatal and newborn drug testing policies
- The Alabama Baptist: Lifeline’s Heritage Builders helps foster-care children
- WLBT3: D.Noblin/Mattress and Lifeline Children’s Services Provide Mattresses for Children
- Christianity Today: Trump’s Foster Care Order Sides with Christian Families
- Restoration News: A Beautiful Choice: One Woman’s Full-Circle Adoption Story
- WORLD Radio: Clearing barriers for foster parents
- Religion Unplugged: ‘In God’s Timing’: Two Adoptions, 31 Years Apart
- Connected Families: Parenting Adopted Children: Building Connection After Trauma
- Mississippi Christian Living: Adoption: The joy, the pain, and why it’s all worth it
- Mississippi Christian Living: Mississippi ministries for adoption, foster care, and pouring into kids
- Patriot Mobile: Lifeline Children’s Services Answers God’s Call to Love and Restore Families
- The Daily Signal: EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Trump’s Meeting With Xi, US Families Ask President for Help to Bring Adopted Children Home From China
- The Daily Signal: 300 Children Are Waiting in China to Come Home and Trump Is ‘Only One That Can Make This Happen,’ Mom Says
- 5 News: Lifeline Children’s Services hosts Rogers lemonade stand to raise funds for vulnerable children
- Religion Unplugged: Christian Families Wait To Complete Chinese Adoptions, But Hope Dims
- The Daily Signal: Trump Has ‘Opportunity to Do What His Predecessor Was Not Able to Do’ and Bring Blind Child Home From China
- Fox And Friends: Chinese adoption freeze leaves families in crisis
- The Daily Signal:Can Trump Break the China Adoption Logjam?
- MinistryWatch: Families Wait to Complete Chinese Adoptions, but Hope Dims
- Youth Today: Adoption still matters for older youth
- National Right to Life: Pro-Life Organization Spotlight: LifeLine Children’s Services
- WBRC 6 News: Adoption and foster care info meeting / Dr. Rick Morton
- Live 5 WCSC: Families invited to learn about adoption, fostering at free Charleston event
- WAPT 16: Mississippi churches use CarePortal to aid families in crisis
- WHNT News 19: Nonprofit Hosting Adoption Meetings
- Hoover Sun: Lifeline Children’s Services to hold adoption meetings at Church at Brook Hills
- 280 Living: Lifeline Children’s Services to hold adoption meetings in Brook Highland
- Faith Radio: Newell, Herbie – Lifeline Children’s Services (SCOTUS Medina decision on taxpayer funding of abortion)
- Faith Radio: Newell, Herbie – Lifeline Children’s Services (National Foster Care Month)
- Biblically Lit: #72 – Brooke DeLoach, Lifeline Children’s Services
- KSNT: Men to complete 250-mile Kansas ultramarathon for charity causes
- The Baptist Paper: Adoption is a unifying answer in the baby bust debate
- Newsbreak: ‘Pain. Grief. Anger.’ Families heartbroken as Trump backlash smashes adoption dreams
- Pregnancy Help News: Heartbeat honors servant leaders at Annual Conference
- Christian Post: To President Trump: Please help our 300 Chinese orphans come to US
- Baptist Press: ERLC, others urge return of abducted Ukrainian children before peace talks
- NOTUS: Faith Leaders Press Trump on Ukrainian Children Abducted by Russia
- Christian Post: World Orphan Week: The Church needs to step up for 153M orphans
- Baptist Press: Lifeline agency ‘key’ in bipartisan letter urging Trump action on Chinese adoption
- Independent Women’s Forum: Independent Women Joins Coalition Letter Regarding America’s Uninsurable and Unavailable Foster Care System
- American Enterprise Institute: An Uninsurable and Unavailable Foster Care System: How Lawsuits, Regulations, Social Inflation, and Policy Failures Are Making the Most Vulnerable Children Uninsurable
- Life News: South Carolina Panel Passes Bill for Tax Credits for Donations to Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
- WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News: World Orphan Week: Raising awareness
- The Alabama Baptist: US leaders urged to ‘simplify and streamline’ international adoption process
- ABC 15 News: Nonprofit tackles foster family shortage with outreach opportunities
- The Mitchell Republic: Lifeline Children’s Services expands its impact across South Dakota, providing hope to families in crisis
- Also featured in: Yahoo Life
- The Times Examiner: Lifeline Children’s Services to Share Virtually About Foster Care in South Carolina
- Dakota News Now: Lifeline Children’s Services hosts adoption meeting for families
- Also featured in: Patch and Brightgram
- WORLD: China canceled these families’ adoptions, but they aren’t giving up
- Baptist Press: China adoptions eyed anew by Lifeline Children’s Services in Trump term
- Also featured in: Biblical Recorder, Ministry Watch, The Christian Index, and Baptist Beacon
- WERC Radio: Herbie Newell of Lifeline Children’s Services joins JT live in the studio
- ABC 12 News: Lifeline Children’s Services encourages adopting or fostering children
- LIFE 101.9 FM: Herbie Newell on foster care and adoption at Christmas
- WDRB News: Louisville women advocate for international adoptions to resume as children wait for a loving home
- WERC Radio: Herbie Newell President of Lifeline Children’s Services
- The Daily Signal: Biden-Harris Admin Put Christian Foster and Adoptive Parents on Sidelines, but Trump Can Change That, Child Advocate Says
- Mornings with Tom and Tabi: Lifeline to Hope Through Adoption
- The Minnesota Star Tribune: Minnesota families in limbo as China halts foreign adoptions
- Biblical Recorder: Aid Chinese orphans, US families stuck in adoption limbo, ERLC urges Blinken
- Live Action: Understanding why adoption is often overlooked in unplanned pregnancies
- The Alabama Baptist: Lifeline’s mentorship ministry reminds women they are ‘Worthy’ of God’s redeeming love
- The Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Harris Admin Paves Way For Bureaucrats To Take Gender-Confused Kids From ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents
- LifeSiteNews: Biden-Harris foster rule could lead to removal of gender-confused children from religious homes
- WorldNetDaily: ‘Transphobia is child abuse’: Biden-Harris paving way for government to snatch gender-confused kids from ‘non-affirming’ parents
- NewsCenter1: Rapid City branch of Lifeline Children’s Services focused on families
- Fox News: Families waiting to adopt children in China shocked by sudden policy change: ‘Gut-punch’
- The Pathway: Show expressed as China ends adoptions impacting hundreds of U.S families
- Reach 96.3FM: Families mourn as China ends international adoptions
- The Lion: China stops international adoptions, leaving hundreds of children, families in heartbreak
- Baptist Press: China ends adoptions impacting hundreds of U.S. families
- Christianity Today: China Ends International Adoptions, Leaving Hundreds of Cases in Limbo
- WORLD: China halts most international adoptions
- Biblical Recorder: Shock, anger as China ends adoptions impacting hundreds of U.S. families
- American Enterprise Institute: The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants
- Birmingham Business Journal: Why public-private partnerships lead to flourishing communities
- American Family News: To stem growing need for fostering, restore the nuclear family
- Fox 6 WBRC: Foster care system changes during back to school
- Yahoo News: Digital platform connects local churches to children in need in three Jackson-area counties
- The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: How Christians can answer the call of the orphan care crisis
- ChurchLeaders: The Local Church, God’s Answer to the Needs of Orphans
- The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: Orphans and Widows Sunday bulletin insert
- Newsmax: Foster Care Children Need Permanence, Stability
- ChurchLeaders: Building a Culture of Adoption Is the Heart of the Church
- Newsmax: Anti-abortion Fight Doesn’t End When Mothers Choose Life
- Birmingham Business Journal: Great business leaders seek to serve, not to be served
- Baptist Press: The Best Fathers Are Present, Not Perfect
- ChurchLeaders: Prayer is the Greatest Good We Can Do
- AEI: Why Foster Children Are Sleeping in Offices and What We Can Do About It
- ChurchLeaders: Pastors Should Think Bigger Than Foster Care and Adoption
- The Washington Stand: The Fall of Roe Marks the Rise of a New Pro-Life Movement
- The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: There are no mere mortals
- Charisma News: 3 Challenges the Church Faces as We Consider a Post-Roe World
- Orlando Sentinel: Olympics put spotlight on Chinese children waiting for adoption
- The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: Christians, remember the vulnerable children of Ukraine
- Christian Headlines: If We Want to Prevent Human Trafficking, We Need to Focus on Older- Child Adoption
- Birmingham Business Journal: President of Birmingham-based nonprofit turned global weighs in on Magic City operations
- Christianity Today: The Grief in Ukraine and Our Chance to Live Out the Christian Promise
- The Washington Stand: Abortion Isn’t Just a ‘Women’s’ Issue. It Harms Men Too.
- Birmingham Business Journal: Three lessons learned as president of Birmingham nonprofit
- Washington Examiner: Don’t be scared by the cost of adoption
- ChurchLeaders: Joseph’s Example of How to Show the Love of Christ to Vulnerable Women and Children
Op-Eds
Take a look at our op-eds.
- The Western Journal: Coercion Is the Abortion Debate We Aren’t Having
- Washington Examiner: Abortion pills don’t empower women. They empower abusive men
- Institute for Faith & Culture: Why the Church Must Recover a Theology of Life
- The Western Journal: What the Data Actually Says About Abortion and Women’s Health
- Baptist Press: Freedom to counsel with conviction
- Daily Wire: SCOTUS Unanimously Hands Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers A Big Win But The Fight Continues
- Baptist Press: The immigration issue Christians can’t afford to disagree on
- Baptist Press: Underground abortion networks reveal spiritual crisis, not policy problem
- The Christian Post: Why this President Trump executive order matters for Christian families
- ByFaith: Answering God’s Call to Defend the Fatherless
- The Western Journal: Liberal Ideology Claims Its Next Victim: Orphans
- The Washington Times: Abortion is not healthcare and never will be
- The Christian Post: Does she believe we abandoned her? 300 trapped in a Chinese orphanage
- The Washington Examiner: Pro-life groups should decline government funding
- The Baptist Paper: Adoption is a unifying answer in the baby bust debate
- The Christian Post: To President Trump: Please help our 300 Chinese orphans come to US
- The Christian Post: World Orphan Week: The Church needs to step up for 153M orphans
- The Christian Post: Sterilization in a culture of fear: The deepening crisis of anti-family ideals
- The Western Journal: The Cost of Being Pro-Life
- Baptist Press: Reclaiming America’s leadership in global child welfare
- The Christian Post: What does it even mean to be pro-life in 2025?
- The Christian Post: Don’t let the 2024 election drown out National Adoption Month
- The Christian Post: Christians: Don’t be surprised by the RNC party platform
- The Christian Post: The Church’s support might just keep a family from foster care
- WORLD Magazine: A powerful pro-life approach
- Townhall: Thanksgiving Isn’t a Relic of the Past, It’s a Celebration of Our Future
- Townhall: International Adoption Gave Me a Heart of Flesh
- Washington Examiner: If you’re pro-life, you should be on Tuberville’s side
- Townhall: Children Are Our Future — So Why Don’t We Make Policy With Them in Mind?
- The Dallas Morning News: America needs more adoptions, less scaremongering
- The Western Journal: We Can’t Have ‘Compassion Fatigue’ While Ukrainian Families Are Being Torn Apart
- Townhall: Could Christians End the Foster Care System?
- The Christian Post: Have you heard about Birth Mother’s Day?
- The Christian Post: Why isn’t adoption a Gospel theme during Easter?
- The Christian Post: Say no to the majority: Fighting for 90% of Down syndrome babies
- The Christian Post: A second chance for female slaves, orphans and abuse victims
- Dallas Morning News: In Ukraine, the humanitarian crisis is leaving behind orphans and children in need
- The Christian Post: 19 years ago, God called me to Ukraine. Today I pray I can return.
- The Christian Post: Honor women by lifting up biblical womanhood
- Townhall: I’m a Father to 3 Ukrainian Children. Putin is Robbing Ukraine’s Orphans of Their Hope for a Better Life
- Washington Examiner: Stop misleading desperate women. Abortion isn’t the only option
- The Western Journal: There’s a Roadmap for Dads Everywhere in the Bible
- The Christian Post: Ending Roe is just the beginning. We need to support women.
- Townhall: Kansas Shows Us Future of the Pro-Life Battle
- The Western Journal: A Powerful Response to Abortion Culture Starts with Godly Men
- The Christian Post: It’s time to talk to our kids about sex ethics
- The Western Journal: Considering Adoption? Start with Prayer, And Follow God Wherever He May Lead
- Townhall: The Abortion Lobby Wants You to Think Adoption Isn’t a ‘Replacement’ for Abortion. Don’t Believe Them.
- The Christian Post: The true essence of Christmas generosity
