{"id":1477189,"date":"2022-05-16T17:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477189"},"modified":"2022-05-16T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:44:48","slug":"her-mom-almost-aborted-her-her-own-nightmarish-life-included-an-abortion-now-she-fights-to-protect-the-unborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/her-mom-almost-aborted-her-her-own-nightmarish-life-included-an-abortion-now-she-fights-to-protect-the-unborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Mom Almost Aborted Her. Her Own Nightmarish Life Included An Abortion. Now She Fights To Protect The Unborn."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fher-mom-almost-aborted-her-her-own-nightmarish-life-included-an-abortion-now-she-fights-to-protect-the-unborn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Pamela Whitehead wants women contemplating having an abortion to hear an unlikely message of hope from her own powerful story of struggle, survival, and redemption.<\/p>\n<p>The executive director of Pro-Love Ministries, Whitehead shared her saga Monday as she and others waited for a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that they believe will overturn the landmark 1973 <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision that made abortion a federal right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy God has taken everything in my life that was meant for evil and he is using it for good,\u201d Whitehead said as she waited with pro-life demonstrators outside the court building.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehead\u2019s journey began the very same year the <em>Roe<\/em> decision came down, when her mother, impregnated at just 15 by an ex-con who would later beat her to death, decided to have her baby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother\u2019s first choice was abortion because she was told it was her fundamental right,\u201d Pamela said. \u201cAnd she was a young mom, of course she felt like she couldn\u2019t do this on her own. Her circumstances were terrible. But thankfully my grandfather stood up for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision spared Whitehead\u2019s life but did not save her from decades of hopelessness and misery. Eight years later, her mother would die by her father\u2019s hand and Whitehead found herself shunted off to a foster home where she faced constant sexual abuse. She turned in her foster dad, who went to prison, she said. Once she reached adulthood, she did a stint in the army, where she says she was again sexually assaulted and even gang-raped.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehead knows hers was a life some may think would have been better off snuffed out in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the abortion industry would tell you that it would have been better if I had never been born, because I was gonna suffer later in life,\u201d Whitehead said. \u201cI became alcoholic, drug addicted, I felt abandoned, neglected, and my life really was hopeless. I had no hope whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the military, Whitehead became a mother of two even as she drifted into a life of drugs and streetwalking. In 2001, when she wound up pregnant yet again, by an unknown father, she made the decision her mother had rejected all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no hope,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what to do and I made the decision to have an abortion in that pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitehead doesn\u2019t want any woman to ever be where she was. Her Pro-Love Ministries, which hosts the crisis line\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/loveline.com\">LoveLine<\/a>, is dedicated to helping women in need by providing them with \u201congoing support in your own community through\u00a0loving volunteers and organizations that we have a relationship with.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<p>Whitehead knows that wrenching poverty often triggers the hopelessness that leads to the decision to abort a pregnancy. Her group has a simple message for women in such a position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not alone,\u201d Whitehead tells women. \u201cI\u2019ve been where you\u2019ve been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The painful memory of her own experience remains fresh enough for Whitehead to convey to young mothers. And the journey she began eight years later stands as a testament that even the faintest faint flicker of hope can grow and illuminate the path to salvation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor [nearly] 10 years I sat on that, I didn\u2019t talk to a single person because I believed that I got what I deserved,\u201d Whitehead said. \u201cAll that shame, all that guilt that I felt, that I deserved that. So I didn\u2019t say anything about it until I surrendered my life to Christ in 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her efforts in Pro-Life Ministries were borne of the knowledge that love and encouragement at so many junctures in her life could have given her strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look back on my life and I think, what if my foster mother had stood up for me?\u201d she said. \u201cWhat would\u2019ve the direction of my life been like? What if my grandfather hadn\u2019t stood up for me? I wouldn\u2019t be here today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now she is determined to provide that support for others from the organization\u2019s Texas home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe own a home, where we house women who have children who need a safe place to transition,\u201d she said. \u201cWe provide for financial needs of women every single day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had women who have had late-term abortions contacting us, they made this appointment out of desperation, feeling like they had no other option, and we\u2019ve been able to help them turn their lives around, change their mind, and today they are empowered, they\u2019re parenting their own children, they\u2019re in their own apartments,\u201d she said proudly.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehead said many of the women who call the ministries\u2019 hotline are fleeing domestic violence, have a history of substance abuse, or have been sexually exploited. She and her fellow advocates view their role as to \u201cserve them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Providing compassion and hope rather than condemnation is the way Whitehead hopes to change minds while she waits for the Supreme Court to change the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery person who stands in front of an abortion facility praying, peacefully offering resources and help\u2026thank you!\u201d she said. \u201cEvery person who volunteers at a pregnancy center, thank you! If you had been in my life that day, I don\u2019t know what would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Pamela Whitehead wants women contemplating having an abortion to hear an unlikely message of hope from her own powerful story of struggle, survival, and redemption.The executive director of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1477192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}