New Year’s Eve 1991, I was invited to go bowling with a small group of people who I hadn’t known for very long and didn’t know very well at all. We bowled and we drank, but I don’t remember much more. I don’t remember leaving the bowling alley, but I remember seeing headlights on our […]
I was conceived in 1974, in a little town called Newbury, in England. Abortion became legal in the UK in 1967, but it wasn’t as acceptable or as accessible as it is now. When my mum fell pregnant with me, she already had four other children to look after, and she was married to my […]
My father was an evangelist, traveling and ministering where ever he was called. My mother was a devout Southern Baptist and my father was a full-gospel, spirit-filled Christian. I was torn between two churches. They were both very godly people but had different outlooks on the Bible because of their denominations.I received Jesus as my […]
In the summer of 2008 in the South of Chile, I was raped at the age of 15. Time passed, and I found out I was pregnant. I was scared, and I didn’t want to be a mother, so I kept my pregnancy a secret. I cried a lot and I was broken-hearted because […]
I’m adopted and several years ago I was privileged to learn some of my back story from my birthmom. I came crashing onto the scene under less than stellar circumstances. My biological mom was a musician who ended up in an adulterous affair with a married man – a married man who had 6 children. […]
In our society, hope has become a liability risk in cases of poor prenatal diagnoses. As a lawyer, I appreciate the legal quandary doctors face when they discover an unborn child with a significant health issue. As a father who has experienced a poor prenatal diagnosis for a child, I sympathize with both the parents […]
It Was Because I Loved Him That I Had to Let Him Go I went through the labor, but never held him in my arms as I gave him for adoption so others saw his childhood charms. But it has always been my prayer that all these years he did know — it was because […]
I’m 78 years old and I’m telling my story now while I still have the opportunity. I want people to know that pregnancy by rape is not the fault of the child, so why should we punish the child for something the biological father did? My teen years were difficult. My mom was overly permissive […]
My name is Rebeca Solórzano. I come with a banner of light, which is life. I was born in 1986. It isn’t frequent that a baby comes into this world under such adverse circumstances like my own: I was born from a very ill mother who was unable to care for a child, and, even […]
Dear Feminists, A note concerning the Women’s March on Washington: Susan B. Anthony, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell would call those women who marched on behalf of abortion,”Tools of the patriarchy.” Women deserve better from our society than abortion as an answer to our social problems. In fact, Feminists […]