President Vladimir Putin recently announced that he plans to sign a bill that bans Americans from adopting Russian children.
A Brooksville couple who is in the middle of such an adoption right now is not crazy about the idea, but they said they are confident that they will be able to bring their little girl home.
Cindy Boyer and her husband have already visited the baby girl in Russia. They recently came back to Brooksville with a bunch of photos.
"The minute we saw her my husband broke down," she said. "We knew it was our baby. She took to us immediately."
However, if Putin signs the ban into law, it could disrupt adoptions that are in the process of being completed.
Boyer said she isn't worried, though.
"I believe we will still be able to bring our baby home, just from talking to our facilitator in Russia," she said.
Boyer said the baby has a bilateral cleft lip, gum and palate, and that she needs surgery as soon as possible.
"They are going to push it through quickly because she is a medical emergency," she said.
Boyer said she knows nothing is 100 percent and that a lot of things are up in the air right now, but she is trying to stay positive.
"I’ve seen what worry and frenzy does and it does nothing but stop you dead in your tracks," she said.
Boyer said her adoption agency in the United States is finding out exactly what all of this means.
The Boyers plan to fly back to Russia next month to bring the little girl home.