Don Downey Elected President of Fetal Rescue and Adoption (FRAA)

NEWS/PRESS RELEASE

January 12, 2026

Don Downey Elected President of Fetal Rescue and Adoption (FRAA)

On 01/12/2026, Donald D. (Don) Downey, Jr. was elected as the 2026 president of Fetal Rescue and Adoption (FRAA) by the FRAA board of directors.

FRAA promotes the advancement of medical procedures to support transplanting a living fetus from an unwilling woman to either: 1. his/her adoptive mother, who will carry him/her to birth and be his/her adoptive parent; or, 2. an artificial womb, where he/she will be cared for by his/her adoptive parent(s).  FRAA’s purpose is to develop and provide additional solutions for expectant women who do not want their child – solutions that are both pro-life and pro-choice. FRAA believes that human science and God’s sovereignty for human life can and should be harmonious with the beginning stages of human life whenever possible and practicable. FRAA supports developing additional solutions that rescue the fetus by keeping the living fetus alive, such as, but not limited to: 1. Fetal Adoption by a willing mother, whereby the living human fetus can be transplanted from the woman who does not want to carry the fetus to birth to the mother who wants to carry the fetus to birth; and, 2. Fetal Adoption by artificial womb, whereby the living human fetus can be transplanted from the woman who does not want to carry the fetus to birth to an artificial womb.   Downey, “We at Fetal Rescue and Adoption hope to provide unwilling, expectant women with alternatives to abortion — by having these additional choices (… Pro-Choice) that keep the babies alive (… Pro-Life). The main effort for 2026 is to develop science to save the unborn who are currently destined for termination.  Since 2017, science has been able to keep sheep fetuses alive in a ‘biobag’; it’s about time science advances to allow the rescue of human fetuses, too.” 

Japan has developed the world’s first complete artificial womb capable of supporting mammalian embryos from early stages to birth. This is not an incubator, but a synthetic uterus that mimics every function of gestation outside the human body. What it unlocks — and unleashes — could reshape biology, family, and society as we know them. [July 2025, https://www.kolapse.com/en/contenido/85636-japans-artificial-womb-and-the-future-of-reproduction%5D

FRAA is a tax-exempt IRS 501(c)3 corporation. FRAA is in good standing with the Colorado Secretary of State.

Downey is a 2004 graduate of Park University, Missouri USA.  On December 31, 2025, Downey retired from being a contracting officer for the Department of the Interior (DOI) U.S. Geological Survey because of the Federal Government’s offer “Fork in the Road.” He is also a retired U.S. Marine Corps master sergeant and a former Colorado company head.