As experts look more into the potential impacts of overturning Roe v. Wade, there’s one community that could see some considerable changes, and that’s the child adoption community.

Josh Waulk and his wife Christy have three adopted children and are active in the adoption community in Tampa Bay.

Waulk said they adopted their children when they were infants which isn’t an easy or cheap process, especially with private adoptions.

“We’ve heard of legal fees and associated costs approaching the $40,000 mark,” he said.

Talks of possibly overturning Roe v. Wade has anti-abortion advocates wondering how much of an impact this could have on the babies being put up for adoption and the families who want them.

“The impact of Roe’s potential overturning, I think, could have fallout in the adoption community in a number of ways," Waulk said. "Could there be an increase in availability of infants to adopt in the community? Maybe.

"On the other hand, for a number of social reasons we may not see that."

Waulk said he believes the system will be prepared for the possibility of more babies being put up for adoption as a result of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

“I’m very confident that the pro-life community, in particular the Christian community, will, as we say, step up to the plate and welcome the opportunity to adopt many children,” he said.

“I think that the pro-life community will certainly have a significant role to play in all of this if it transpires the way we think it might,” he continued. “Families being willing to step up, sign up to foster children as well as the adoption side of things.

"We’re definitely gonna have to step up and be ready to bring these children into our homes and care for them the way we always said we would.”

Another question that some have raised is whether an influx of children in need of families will effect the costs and process associated with adoptions.

“Even if we see an increase in the availability of infant children available for adoption, how that will affect the cost of adoption? I’m not really sure,” said Waulk. “The legal fees are what they are, they would adjust with the legal market place so to speak, but I wouldn’t predict there would be a whole lot of fluidity in that particular part of it all.”

An abortion rights advocate and medical expert told Spectrum News that mothers who change their minds about getting an abortion often keep their baby, not give it up for adoption.

Spectrum News spoke with several adoption attorneys who said they don’t foresee an influx of babies being put up for adoption if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

But one attorney said there is concern about more children from unwanted pregnancies ending up in the child welfare system at some point.