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🗓️ 30 October 2025
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As a young woman, Camille Cates carried immense grief over the murder of her infant daughter and her abortion. For years, she spiraled into darkness, guilt, and shame. But God rescued her. Now, Camille shares her tragic story in light of God’s Word and His redemptive love for each of us.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:32.4 | We love you. We love you. We love you. We love your baby. You know, we're going to get through this together. And Jesus loves you. And, you know, no matter how this happened, this baby is a gift from God. |
| 0:55.4 | So how can we steward this pregnancy to the glory of God? |
| 1:00.3 | Camille Cates is with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, |
| 1:04.9 | and we have an amazing God-filled conversation for you about post-abortive healing. |
| 1:11.5 | This topic isn't going to be suitable for younger listeners. |
| 1:15.1 | And with that, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:17.1 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:18.2 | John, it's no secret that abortion is an important cultural issue. |
| 1:22.9 | We talk about it a lot here at Focus because we want women and men to understand the importance |
| 1:28.9 | of having a child. |
| 1:30.7 | And that's debated publicly now and we have laws this way or that way in each of the states. |
| 1:36.4 | But the bottom line is children are blessing. |
| 1:40.4 | Sometimes couples and women particularly are in a very tough situation and we know that something like |
| 1:46.4 | one and four women have had an abortion in the United States so we don't want to simply put |
| 1:52.4 | our heads in the sand and not acknowledge what is happening but we do want to help those women |
| 1:58.8 | who have had an abortion or who may in the future contemplate an |
| 2:03.0 | abortion. You know, one of the great things I believe focus has done over the years is option |
| 2:07.5 | ultrasound. I think now the number is 527,000 babies being saved through that effort. And it's now |
| 2:13.9 | into pill reversal activity and networking throughout all the pregnancy resource centers. |
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