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When Jessie Hawkins adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didnt, at first, know what to think. Shed wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like shed done something wrong.Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of reproductive rights, pitched as a win-win compromise in the never-ending abortion debate. But as Kathryn Joyce makes clear in The Child Catchers, adoption has lately become even more entangled in the conservative Christian agenda.To tens of millions of evangelicals, adoption is a new front in the culture wars a test of pro-life bona fides, a way for born again Christians to reinvent compassionate conservatism on the global stage, and a means to fulfill the Great Commission mandate to evangelize the nations.