Utah Adoption in the news
Keep up with the latest news about Utah’s adoption landscape.
Fox 13 Utah (2025): Committee gives support to ‘adoption tourism’ bill ahead of next legislative session
KUER 90.1: Early steps are being taken to reform Utah’s easy adoption laws
Deseret News (2025): Opinion: Adoption amendments are a pro-life issue
Fox 13 Utah (2025): Utah adoption agencies, reform advocates debate financial support for birth mothers
Deseret News (2025): Opinion: Adoptee ‘what-ifs’ and Utah’s adoption tourism
Fox 13 Utah (2025): Utah adoption reform advocates, opponents weigh in at legislative hearing
Fox 13 Utah (2025): Utah legislators exploring tweaks to adoption laws criticized as exploitative
PBS News Hour (2025): Agencies accused of rushing adoptions before mothers can change their minds
The NC Beat (2025): Grandmother’s Search for Missing 2-Year-Old Calli Horner Ends with Shocking Utah Adoption Update
The Times (2025): Inside Utah’s ‘human marketplace’ for adopted babies
Mother Jones (2025): “Cradle and All: The devastating cost of Utah’s thriving adoption industry.”
Salt Lake Tribune (2024): ‘Ruined them for a baby’: Birth mother facing eviction after she says Utah adoption provider took back offer for thousands in cash
New York Magazine / The Cut (2024): ‘People Say, You Sold Your Baby’ How Utah became the most exploitative state in private adoption.
Salt Lake Tribune (2023): ‘Too little oversight’: A Utah adoption agency owner violated state law and lost her license. Why did officials grant her a new one?
Live Action (2023): Adoption agency owner’s license reinstated despite ‘potentially criminal’ practices
TIME (2021): The Baby Brokers: Inside America’s Murky Private-Adoption Industry
Deseret News (2020): Former Arizona official pleads guilty in Utah adoption scheme
KSL TV (2020): Ex-Arizona Politician Gets 6 Years In Adoption Scheme
Salt Lake Tribune (2019): Arizona elected official believed to have smuggled more than 40 pregnant women through Utah in illegal ‘baby mill’
KUTV (2018): Adoption agency in Centerville loses licence after failure to fix a number of problems
NBC News (2013): Dad Files $130M Lawsuit After Son Given Up for Adoption in Utah
Deseret News (2012): Utah Adoption Council president resigns over fathers' rights issue
Salt Lake Tribune (2011): Texas father reunited with 2-year-old son placed for adoption in Utah this summer