Sixteen months ago, Andrea Brown, 24 years old and unmarried, was desperate for an abortion, fearing the disappointment of her parents and the humiliation she might face.
While searching the telephone book one day, she came across the Bowie Crofton Pregnancy Center and Medical Clinic, a church-financed organization that provides counseling and education about sexual abstinence. The receptionist told Brown that the facility did not perform abortions or make referrals but that she could come in for an ultrasound to make sure her 6 1/2-week pregnancy was viable. When she did, everything changed.
"When I had the sonogram and heard the heartbeat -- and for me a heartbeat symbolizes life -- after that there was no way I could do it," Brown said recently as she revisited the clinic and watched her now 9-month-old daughter, Elora, play at her feet.
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Updates:
Opinion Times and Hispanic Pundit have more. Also, check out Hyscience.
Praise God!
This story is going around fast! I got it from Ankle biting Pundits and the NYTs.
Pro-abortion blogger No More Mr. Nice Guy as a post complaining about Andrea Brown keeping her baby. Or maybe about the CPC for showing her the sonogram. Something along those lines. For sure, he's mad.