The Stara's first pregnancy was terminated when she was 15 years old.

She didn't understand what was happening.

After three more abortions, she finally learned the truth.

I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human being in your stomach.

And I was like, wow, that's pro life.

Today, Dostara has six children who represent God's love and forgiveness in her life.

And today, Dostara is a pro-life advocate.

So it's focus on the family has definitely sharpened me and I'm looking forward to

continuing to being sharpening. I'm not embarrassed anymore about the choices that I made. I'm wanting to help.

I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms giving these families hope. Donate at

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Well I heard somebody say that holding on to slash marriage the other person. It doesn't really do that. Today we're going to discuss what it

means to choose forgiveness even when your spouse has hurt you. I'm John

Fuller along with focused colleagues and friends Aaron and Greg Smalley and Aaron you

counsel a lot of couples what do you see as one of the more common reasons for

the struggle to forgive in marriage.

Often what's going on is that there's been a painful experience and the person is going,

if I forgive you, does that mean that you're just going to forget the pain that this has caused me?

And if I don't know that you understand the pain that it caused me,

you're just going to do it again.

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