A powerful case for life: A conversation with Laura Lynn Hughes, author of "Choose Zoe"
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
- What should a Christian woman do when they’re encouraged to have an abortion?
- What does the church get wrong in its teachings about premarital sex?
- How can a woman deal with being shamed by the church when an unplanned pregnancy is discovered?
- How can the church do a better job of ministering to women who’ve had an abortion?
- What do you recommend for someone who wants to be involved in the pro-life cause?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:08.2 | Forum. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, my name is Catherine Elkins. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm with Denison Forum. |
| 0:14.4 | And today I have the pleasure of interviewing Laura Lynn Hughes. |
| 0:19.2 | And I would like to tell you a little bit about her. She is the author |
| 0:22.6 | of Choose Zoe, a story of unplanned parenthood and the case for life. At 15, she became pregnant |
| 0:29.6 | and chose to keep the baby, who is now a wife and mother of four, who works part-time at a mental |
| 0:34.7 | health hospital in the youth wing, and who is also on staff at the pregnancy clinic where Hughes volunteers and is on the board, Alpha Clinics. |
| 0:43.1 | Hughes also volunteers at her local Alpha Mobile Unit and is the co-founder of a Movement of Love Ministry, |
| 0:49.8 | serving as a speaker and teacher about pregnancy, fetal development, and post-abortion trauma and recovery. |
| 0:56.5 | She also runs a photography studio, Images by Hughes, in Northern California, and has five |
| 1:02.1 | children and 11 grandchildren. |
| 1:05.0 | It is my pleasure to bring her into the studio today to discuss her book, Choose Zoe. So Laura, hello and welcome. Thank you, |
| 1:13.8 | Catherine. Can you give us a little bit of background on why you wrote this book? Absolutely. |
| 1:19.7 | Three 12-year-old girls were pregnant in my town within one month. So try to wrap your mind around that. |
| 1:28.2 | You heard it right, three 12-year-old girls. |
| 1:31.6 | And with the third one, she had a positive pregnancy test. |
| 1:34.9 | She came into the pregnancy clinic that I volunteer at. |
| 1:38.3 | And we went over a positive pregnancy test, and I showed her fetal development, how far long she was. |
| 1:46.1 | And when I started asking the questions on the intake, I found out her age, the circumstances, |
| 1:52.4 | and I knew right away that I was going to have to call the police CPS and report. |
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