While on vacation recently in Hawaii, I wore my favorite Grand Rapids Right to Life T-shirt; “I protect babies. What’s your superpower?”
A woman approached me and asked, “What does your shirt mean?”
I eagerly shared with her my story that, in a condensed version, goes something like this …
My mother was 15 years old when she became pregnant with me, and her parents insisted that she could not keep me.
A decision was made and, fortunately, the choice was adoption, not abortion.
I told the woman about all the blessings in my life: family, friends, laughter, sunsets, vacations, smelling flowers, a life of service to others, ice cream … all the things I never would have experienced had a different choice been made.
We stood silently for a moment as the woman absorbed all that I had just shared with her. When she opened her mouth to speak, I was not expecting what I heard.
“Thank you for sharing your story with me. I had never considered the right-to-life versus the right-to-choose topic from the viewpoint of a child who had not been aborted.”
She then admitted, “I will never think of it the same way again.”