I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Claire

Colwell, the author of a new book called Survivor, an abortion survivor's surprising story

of choosing forgiveness and finding redemption.

I think that the church has played a huge part in how women and families believe,

honestly believe that they need abortion in order to live their life and to be happy.

You could walk on a college campus and ask people where the local

Planned Parenthood, people will know where to direct you, but you ask them where their

church-funded and community-funded pregnancy resource center is or a church that can help a woman

in an unplanned pregnancy, nobody knows.

Over the course of my journalistic career, I've interviewed many people involved in the

pro-life movement, some of them on this very podcast. I've interviewed women who have had abortions,

men who have pressured women into having abortions, health care professionals

who performed the abortions.

But I think today's guest is the first person I've ever interviewed who has survived an abortion.

Claire Caldwell knew that she was adopted from an early age.

She was raised in a loving Christian home.

But when she was a young adult, she began a journey to find her birth mother.

And when she did, she learned something that became the shock of her life.

Her birth mother, Tanya, confessed to Claire that she had tried to abort

Claire but had failed. The abortion terminated the life of Claire's twin, but Claire herself had survived.

It turns out that Claire is not alone. There are hundreds of known abortion survivors who have been identified by pro-life groups,

but the true number is likely far greater.

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