A baby abandoned in a "baby box" at Joosarang church waits for a medical examination at a children's hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 19. Pastor Lee Jong-rak of the church, who runs a "baby box" where mothers can leave unwanted infants, has seen a sharp increase in the number of newborns being left there because, the pastor says, of a new law aimed protecting the rights of children. South Korea is trying to shed a reputation of being a source of babies for adoption by people abroad. It is encouraging domestic adoption and tightening up the process of a child's transfer from birth mother to adoptive parents.

A policeman talks on a phone as preacher Jeong Young-ran looks on after a mother abandoned her baby at a "baby box" at Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept. 18.

A police officer collects DNA samples from two abandoned babies after the babies were left at a "baby box" at Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept 20.

South Korean pastor Lee Jong-rak adjusts the blanket around an abandoned two-week-old baby boy in a "baby box" at Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept. 18.

Ward officials, who did not want to be identified, hold abandoned babies as they head to a child advocacy center after the babies had undergone checkups at a children's hospital in Seoul on Sept. 19.

Pastor Lee Jong-rak plays with Lee On-u, 6, a disabled child who was abandoned, at the Joosarang church in Seoul on Sept. 20.

South Korean pastor Lee Jong-rak carries a baby, abandoned a day earlier at a "baby box" at his Joosarang church, to hand it over to ward officials as portraits of other abandoned children raised and adopted by him are seen on a wall of the church in Seoul on Sept. 20.

A boy hugs a greyhound that will be placed in temporary foster care at his home in Los Angeles Feb. 11, 2012. Fast Friends, a greyhound adoption group based outside Los Angeles, is committed to finding homes for retired greyhounds from the Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico.

Greyhounds compete at the Caliente racetrack in Tijuana Feb. 18, 2012. All the dogs have been imported from the United States where only seven states still operate dog tracks. Circuit rules demand that all race dogs retire at the age of five, though some run well into their sixth year.

Greyhounds stand at a fence in a kennel at the Caliente racetrack in Tijuana Feb.11. Every few months, volunteers orchestrate an event called "Retirement Day" where older, slower dogs or dogs that have been weakened from frequent leg injuries officially leave their racing days behind and are given up for adoption.

Two adopted greyhounds relax in their new home in Whittier, Calif. Feb. 21, 2012.

An adopted Haitian child looks out the window on the return flight to France on Dec. 22, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. French families arrived in Haiti to fetch a group of Haitian children they adopted in the wake of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the impoverished country nearly a year ago. The group of 105 parents is due to return to Paris with a first group of 113 children in time for Christmas. A total of 318 adopted Haitian children are included in a special program to bring them to France after disruptions caused by the earthquake.

Adopted Haitian children board the return flight to France on Dec. 22, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. French families arrived in Haiti to fetch a group of Haitian children they adopted in the wake of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the impoverished country nearly a year ago. The group of 105 parents is due to return to Paris with a first group of 113 children in time for Christmas.

French citizen Pascal Blondeau, 38, holds his Haitian adopted daughter Daudeline Desir in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010. French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Saturday that 318 children had been cleared for adoption and were being allowed to leave the Caribbean country, which is still reeling from a January earthquake and now experiencing a deadly cholera epidemic.

A French woman and her adopted Haitian son weep on Dec. 22, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. French families arrived in Haiti to fetch a group of Haitian children they adopted in the wake of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the impoverished country nearly a year ago. The group of 105 parents is due to return to Paris with a first group of 113 children in time for Christmas.

Young children wait for adoption with parents that will return with them to France in Port-au-Prince on Dec. 21, 2010.