Welcome to Among the Lilies.

This is a show for ladies who are tired of pretending and are ready to be real.

I'm your host, Cameron Brad, and in today's episode, I talk with an amazing, beautiful, brave woman named Gracie.

This is actually a second part in a two-part series on abortion.

Gracie kind of shares her story in the last episode.

So if you haven't listened to the last episode, I pause this.

Go listen to the last episode and then come back to this one.

Because it'll, I feel like we just kind of dive in here where the last episode really kind of shows her her story leading up. So, um,

Cliff Notes or Twitter version of, I don't think anyone says Cliff Notes version anymore. I think

that used to be a thing when I was like in high school and college. We're like, oh,

Cliff Notes version. Now we say Twitter version. Twitter version. She was an athlete. She still is an

athlete, but she was a very, she was on a college scholarship.

She was a very good athlete, really into her body, being in good shape, very much found

her worth in normal things of the world and society.

And she won nationals in something, didn't feel like that joy or excitement that she felt like she should have felt.

Started not feeling well, realized she was pregnant, brought it to her boyfriend and went

to a crisis, a pregnancy crisis center.

The lady was beautiful, tried to help her, told her boyfriend, her boyfriend

basically was like, well, it's your fault. You obviously didn't do something, right? Because we were

using all sorts of forms of contraception. She felt like she was in a hard place, talked to her parents.

And her parents said, we're going to come get you and we'll take care of it. Her parents' way

of taking care of it was taking her to an abortion clinic.

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