11.   We commend those who provide alternatives to abortions by meeting the needs of mothers and offering adoption services.

12.   Peru has now taken a whole new approach to solving this problem by setting up a state-funded agency which provides an efficient, legal adoption service.

13.   Adoption services, restaurant and water supply inspections and transportation for the old and disabled would cease.

14.   Allen and his wife, Vickie, tried adopting twin baby girls born to a St. Louis woman who offered the children through an Internet adoption service.

15.   Alan and Judith Kilshaw of Buckley, Wales, adopted the girls in Arkansas after locating them through an Internet adoption service based in California.

16.   An American couple, who found the twins through the same Internet adoption service, is contesting the adoption.

17.   Both couples acknowledge paying a San Diego Internet adoption service called A Caring Heart.

18.   Both the Allens and the Kilshaws paid thousands of dollars to an Internet adoption service.

19.   Both the Kilshaws and a California couple, Richard and Vickie Allen, acknowledged paying thousands of dollars to an Internet adoption service whose operator has now disappeared.

20.   Critics, however, said it would be unworkable to hold Internet service providers responsible, urging the government to instead target those running illegal adoption services.