Rockford Catholic Charities has announced it will discontinue state-funded adoption and foster care services, which will displace 350 area children.

This comes just days before the state's first Civil Union licenses will be made available, and after multiple attempts were made in the General Assembly to ensure Catholic Charities' right to effectively discriminate against a prospective parent on the account of their own religious beliefs. The Civil Unions bill passed last year does not specify adoption rights.