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The Michael Berry Show

AM Show Hr 3 | Choosing Life: Leah Outten’s Journey Through Adoption and Hope

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate this Adoption Special with Leah Outten’s powerful story of choosing life at 16 and embracing open adoption. Discover the truth about birth parents, the benefits of open adoption, and resources for unexpected pregnancies.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.0

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.0

It's that time.

0:09.0

Lock and load.

0:13.0

The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

0:18.0

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever.

0:25.2

We begin bombing in five minutes.

0:28.9

The highlight of the year for me, as many of you know, and some of you have said it is for you as well, is our adoption special, which, of course, is today.

0:37.3

It's very important to me on a personal level,

0:40.6

but it's very important to me on a moral and writ large level.

0:45.3

There are more people who are adopted than you would believe

0:48.0

because you don't know that they're adopted

0:50.6

because you didn't have any reason to know that.

0:53.1

They don't wear a shirt that says, I'm adopted.

0:56.0

But when we think about the process of parenting and what our parents mean to us and what

1:01.0

it means to be a parent, which is so much more than just providing food and shelter, it's

1:06.5

discipline, it's love, it's presence, it's so many things. It's teaching. You know, our children

1:13.6

should learn first and foremost from parents before the schools. If you don't like what the

1:18.6

schools are teaching, it should never override what you've already taught at home. The only time

1:22.4

it's a problem is if you're not using that opportunity to teach at home. And that's about

1:26.5

household finances, but that's

1:28.4

about our faith. That's about who we are as a people, what our culture is. These are the things

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