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In the early 90’s my church was forming its first-ever Respect Life group. The initial meeting included the showing of Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s documentary, Silent Scream. After watching the image of a pre-born child instinctively try to avoid the abortionist’s instrument, my pro-Life beliefs became cemented in my heart. I had seen Evil graphically displayed…

In the first stage of my career I was working in a small community hospital. A coworker was working in the operating room. She finished her shift very distraught about what she had witnessed. ROE vs WADE was in practice. What had occurred was life altering to many.When I moved to Pittsburgh I heard of…

Losing my mother to insidious brain disease brought me to my knees and opened my eyes to an inescapable truth: every day, and every moment, of every life is a sacred and precious gift from God. That realization marked the start of my faith journey. A dozen years and three children later, I felt called…

Hello Friend! My name is Nicole and I am a 45 year old wife and mother. I am married to my best friend, who just happens to also be my pastor, and we are blessed with 3 beautiful children – Caleb (16), Eden (14), and Elijah (10). We also have 2 fur-babies, Sadie and Shadow,…

In July 2017, God answered a prayer that I’ve carried in my heart for over 40 years–a prayer to one day be reunited with my son who I placed for adoption so many years ago. Adoption was such a difficult decision for me, but being single and in my late teens, circumstances in my life…

When I was 18, I realized I was “late” and a friend offered to take me downtown for a pregnancy test at Planned Parenthood. There were pro-life protesters in front of the building. I knew as I walked past these protesters, I wasn’t going to have an abortion. Inside, among a mass herd of girls,…

I grew up in the city of Pittsburgh and went to middle school in Oakland. When I was in sixth grade, I ended up in a small group at recess listening to a classmate share a troubling story. She had decided to have an abortion the previous summer – at twelve years old. As one…

As an adolescent I picked up a book from my parents’ bookshelf called Abortion: Questions and Answers by Dr. and Mrs. John C. Willke. Reading their book made me passionate about defending the lives of the unborn. When I was 24 I also got to understand better the perspective of a woman faced with an…

As a life long (80 years) Catholic I have always valued life. When my son and his wife had trouble getting pregnant and had several miscarriages, they decided to adopt. It was an answer to my prayers. My son is in the military and at the time they were able adopt a new born in…

My “why story” begins when I was in seventh grade. A volunteer – who happened to be the mother of another student in the class – came to our classroom to encourage the students to make the trip down to Washington D.C. to peacefully and prayerfully protest abortion at the “March for Life.” In her…