‘Save Veronica’ protesters head to Washington to push for adoption law changes

Protesters will lobby Congress to change the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, after her adoptive parents in South Carolina lost custody of “Baby Veronica” to her birth father in Oklahoma. The South Carolina couple had raised the girl from birth.

By Michael Overall - Tulsa World | Modified: July 10, 2012 at 11:46 pm | Published: July 11, 2012

TULSA — After a “Save Baby Veronica” rally earlier this year, organizers told people to hang on to their protest placards “in case we need to go to Washington, D.C.”

photo - This October 2011 photo provided by Melanie Capobianco shows her adoptive daughter, Veronica, trick-or-treating in Charleston, S.C. Her adoption case is pitting the Capobiancos, who nurtured her since birth, against the girl’s birth father, who was recently awarded custody. AP Photo

This October 2011 photo provided by Melanie Capobianco shows her adoptive daughter, Veronica, trick-or-treating in Charleston, S.C. Her adoption case is pitting the Capobiancos, who nurtured her since birth, against the girl’s birth father, who was recently awarded custody. AP Photo

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Now, they’re heading to the nation’s capital Wednesday, but not quite the way they expected.

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