COMMENTARY: Fixing a Foster Care System

COMMENTARY: Fixing a Foster Care System That Would Ban Mother Teresa

The Daily Signal

February 6, 2018

In one of the most moving parts of the president’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump honored Ryan Holet—a police officer who decided to adopt the baby of a heroin addict.

Holet encountered the baby’s parents while on duty and asked the mother, “Why do you have to be shooting that? You’re going to ruin your baby. You’re going to kill your baby.”

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