"It's such a courageous decision for an expectant parent to choose an adoption plan. It's so brave. It is such a selfless thing to do."
Julie C. Paine, branch director for the Southern New England office (serving both Massachusetts and Rhode Island) of Bethany Christian Services speaks with an earnest, full-hearted passion.
BEIJING (AP) — China strongly condemned the United States after a U.S. warship deliberately sailed near one of the Beijing-controlled islands in the hotly contested South China Sea to exercise freedom of navigation and challenge China's vast sea claims.
The missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur sailed within 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) of Triton Island in the Paracel chain "to challenge excessive maritime claims of parties that claim the Paracel Islands," without notifying the three claimants beforehand, Defense Department spokesman Mark Wright said Saturday in Washington.
