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Welcome to the Gospel Center Pro-Life Podcast. In this episode we have a special guest, Jessica Mullen, with option adoption.

She talks about some of the do's and don'ts of mentioning adoption to an abortion-minded mother

and shares her family's adoption testimony. This is a Skype interview and the sound quality may be slightly lacking,

but we still think it'll be a blessing. Stay tuned.

Welcome to the Gospel Center Pro-Life Podcast. We appreciate you guys who listen. We hope this podcast will be a blessing and encouragement to you guys.

We have today with us Jessica Mullen, say, hey, Jessica. Hey there.

It's good to have you, Jessica. Jessica is with option adoption. She started this ministry sometime ago. She'll share a little bit of her story in that,

but the reason why I felt like we needed to have this podcast and me and Vicki talked about having this podcast is

we are getting a lot of questions, I mean we always have, but now even more so, getting a lot of questions of people asking,

don't you guys offer adoption at the abortion center? I would love to adopt a baby. Can you connect with a mom at the abortion center that would want to let us adopt her baby?

So we want to talk about some of those questions and we thought Jessica would be the perfect person to answer some of those questions.

Talk about some of that because she has a perspective of being involved in adoption and helping people place their children for adoption and helping people connect with moms who want to adopt,

but also even has an adoption story in her past and with her family and and it's awesome story and she's been on the sidewalk too.

She has the best of all the worlds that we're discussing.

So Jessica that's why we wanted to bring you on so if you could just to give the folks a little bit of context understanding who you are, share, share who you are, what the ministry does and your story personally of your little girl Blythe and how the Lord orchestrated all of that.

Okay, we'd love to. Well, let's see, my husband and I and our family really started with the sidewalk ministry. I would say it's been close to seven or eight years ago now and we really didn't know a whole lot about sidewalk ministry.

We just kind of were the Lord planted us and then once we had been on the sidewalk for about a year, we started to really ask more questions about how many women choose life in place for adoption versus going forward with an abortion.

And we were asking that question was because we had just gone through an adoption of our little girl Blythe and we didn't really know her whole story when we first adopted her, but.

As I'm certain unfold her birth mother shared more and more about the situation while she was pregnant with Blythe and so that really lit a fire on us to be on the sidewalk even more and then to ask those questions that I mentioned before, which was how many women really choose adoption over abortion.

And what we started to find out was a really grim statistic, which was less than 2% of women choose adoption over death and that just broke my heart because you know for my husband and I, we were sitting here with this living example of what choosing life looks like, but not just that, but also the added layer of placing that child into an adoptive family.

And so what we did was we went on a journey and we essentially asked the Lord to guide us to a ministry that was already in place here in the US that was frontline ministry that helped people who were abortion determined or abortion minded, the adoption as a choice.

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