SALT LAKE CITY — An attorney who runs an adoption agency in the southern United States joined a Utah legislative committee hearing virtually on Wednesday, calling on lawmakers thousands of miles away from where she lives to change their adoption laws.

"You might ask why I am interested in this in Utah,” Carrie Murray Nellis said after the issue was added last minute to the Legislature’s Interim Judiciary Committee. “And the reason is because I am constantly having to talk to women who have given birth and been moved from our states of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina to Utah and coerced into making an adoption plan.”

Murray Nellis, with the Georgia-based Abiding Love Adoption agency, said she’s seen this type of story “over and over again.” She urged state lawmakers “to stop this madn

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