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The Jackson Family’s Prenatal Testing Story

December 12, 2017/0 Comments/in Ableism, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

The Jacksons always knew they wanted a large family from the beginning. Jennifer and her husband Richard have enjoyed the family lifestyle: bowling, movies, water fights, being outdoors together, and actively participating in their church. In February 2016, the Jackson family found out they’d be adding another child to their home and everyone was ecstatic! […]

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Baby Nielson and the humanity of the preborn child

November 29, 2017/0 Comments/in Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

Jaelyn Barnes had a miscarriage at eleven weeks. Baby Nielson, as you can see in this family photo, was a human being. This being Jaelyn’s fifth child, she was an experienced mother and their entire family was ecstatic for the newest addition. Jaelyn’s husband was serving their community as police officer when they first discovered […]

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Prenatal Misdiagnosis: Joann’s Story

October 31, 2017/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

My name is Joann Parlin. I became pregnant with my third child, Christina, in 1995. My pregnancy was high risk, but I didn’t think much of it. I wasn’t the first pregnant mother receive close monitoring; a lot of times it’s precautionary more than anything else. I was four months along when at work one […]

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Empty-Handed: The Lie of Convenience

October 27, 2017/0 Comments/in Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

I’ve never had an abortion. I’ve had three healthy babies, one singleton and a set of twins. During my third pregnancy, the worst occurred: a miscarriage. I was walked to the precipice of choice on how to proceed. I could allow the miscarriage to happen naturally; use a chemical option, misoprostol; or opt for a […]

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Love Was Louder Than My Rape

October 11, 2017/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

My name is Louise McLean and I’m a Newfoundland native who lived in Bishop Falls until I was 10 years old. It was at that age my dad got a job out of province and my family moved to British Columbia. I am also a mother from rape. When I was 16, I got my […]

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Not Your Grandmother’s Adoption: Modern Adoption and How the Pro-Life Community Keeps Up

September 27, 2017/0 Comments/in Adoption & Foster Care, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

Portrait of the author, Kelsey Vander Vliet For the pro-life community, it often seems as though we are chasing after the changes in adoption, but never quite catching up to speed. We get caught up in tedious rhetoric that delays true education and action on the subject. Is adoption the alternative to parenting, or is […]

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The Ewing Family’s Story

September 25, 2017/0 Comments/in Ableism, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

[Today’s guest post by Feleica Langdon is part of our paid blogging program. Feleica is a provincial pro-life speaker in Newfoundland, founder of Life Defenders, and the regional coordinator in NL of Campaign Life Coalition working alongside the provincial coordinator, Margaret Hynes.] When Jeannie Ewing was pregnant with Sarah—her second child with her husband Ben—everything […]

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A pro-life activist’s unplanned pregnancy story

August 21, 2017/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

Above: an adoptive parent and child participate in a pro-life rally [Today’s guest post by Debby Wakeham is part of our paid blogging program.] I was 27 years old, living in the UK and bringing up two children single handed after my divorce. I was also running a small secular feminist pro-life group called Women […]

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Heather’s Story

August 16, 2017/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

Heather Hobbs with her children Alexandria, Tristan, and Gideon [Today’s guest post is the personal story of Heather Hobbs as told to Feleica Langdon. It is part of our paid blogging program. Feleica is a provincial pro-life speaker in Newfoundland and the regional coordinator in NL of Campaign Life Coalition working alongside the provincial coordinator, Margaret […]

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How I went from staunch pro-choice to pro-life

July 7, 2017/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

7 and a half week old human, via the Endowment for Human Development [Today’s guest post by Lauren Matthews is part of our paid blogging program.] Most of us have seen the insensitive pro-choice signs that people hold at marches and rallies. They say things like “abortion on demand and without apology” or “hoes before […]

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