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When my wife first asked me why I couldn’t call myself pro-life, my answer was simple.
I didn’t believe the pro-life movement offered a valid alternative to abortion.
Abortion was horrific, I said, but it addressed the underlying crises women faced. Poverty. Housing insecurity. Fear. Isolation. Meanwhile, the pro-life movement seemed content to offer diapers and wipes to a problem that demanded far more.
What most people don’t know is that I began as the pro-choice CEO of a pro-life nonprofit.
I loved my wife. I loved her conviction. And over time, my heart changed. Like Oskar Schindler, the gray scales fell away, and the world came into color.
That transformation became irreversible the first time I held a baby we helped save from abortion.
His mother had been scheduled for a later-term abortion. She was living in her car. She didn’t need slogans. She needed housing. Stability. Someone to show up.
We got her into housing. We stood with her. And when her son, Kiahari, was born, we were in the delivery room.
I sobbed.
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I didn’t believe the pro-life movement offered a valid alternative to abortion.
Abortion was horrific, I said, but it addressed the underlying crises women faced. Poverty. Housing insecurity. Fear. Isolation. Meanwhile, the pro-life movement seemed content to offer diapers and wipes to a problem that demanded far more.
What most people don’t know is that I began as the pro-choice CEO of a pro-life nonprofit.
I loved my wife. I loved her conviction. And over time, my heart changed. Like Oskar Schindler, the gray scales fell away, and the world came into color.
That transformation became irreversible the first time I held a baby we helped save from abortion.
His mother had been scheduled for a later-term abortion. She was living in her car. She didn’t need slogans. She needed housing. Stability. Someone to show up.
We got her into housing. We stood with her. And when her son, Kiahari, was born, we were in the delivery room.
I sobbed.
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I began as the pro-choice CEO of a pro-life nonprofit
When my wife first asked me why I couldn t call myself pro-life, my answer was simple
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