MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- Some adoptive parents are speaking out in response to state Rep. Alvin Holmes' comments last month, when he asserted that white lawmakers would not allow their daughters to give birth to a child with a black father and that white parents rarely adopt black children.

A Facebook page, Faces of Families in Alabama, was started in response to Holmes' comments, said Beverly Owings of Wetumpka. Owings and her husband have adopted four children, including a daughter who is biracial, Owings said.

They are scheduled to hold a news conference Wednesday at 2 p.m. outside the Alabama State House.

“Families are not adopting children because of their color,” Owings said. “They’re adopting children based on their love and commitment to those children.”

During House debate over an abortion bill, Holmes said 99 percent of white legislators would force their daughters to have an abortion if impregnated by a black man. He offered $100,000 in cash to anyone who could show "a whole bunch of whites" have adopted black children in Alabama.

Owings said her biracial daughter, who is 13, saw Holmes' comments on television and was upset.

"When I have my daughter look at me and say, 'We are a family. What about us?' I have no other option but to take a stand," Owings said.