Every year, over120,000 children are adopted by families in the United States.  In 1995, sophomore Ellie Bednarek was one of those children.

When Bednarek was three months old she was adopted from China.

“In China there’s a policy that parents can only have one child because there’s an overpopulation problem and you also can’t bring a child to an orphanage,” she explained.

Bednarek was left in a zoo and was picked up and brought to the orphanage by the police not long afterward.

She was brought to a doctor to ensure that she had no health problems and was then put up for adoption.

“I actually don’t know my exact birth date and the doctor just had to estimate what it was by my belly button,” Bednarek said.

Now she celebrates her birthday every year on the estimated day.

Bednarek said that because she was adopted, she has strong beliefs toward certain subjects.

“It makes me pro-life because I realize that if my parent’s would have aborted then that could have been me,” she said.

Bednarek also said when she is older she would be interested in adopting a baby from China, just as her adoptive parents did.