Hey everyone, it's Kristen Hawkins. Welcome to this new episode of the explicitly pro-life

podcast. So today I'm going to bring you a conversation I just recently had on Facebook with

my friend Mary Vote. Mary and I met about a few months back. We were connected by a mutual friend.

In fact, I'm kind of surprised we haven't met years earlier. But Mary's youngest daughter has cystic fibrosis, which two of my children,

Gunner and Gracie, have. So I asked Mary to come on to have a discussion about what it was like

to get the diagnosis that your child has cystic fibrosis, what, you know, it's meant for her

and her family, how they're handling the COVID quarantine.

And we also talk a little bit about some

discriminatory practices in our healthcare system

that are going on right now

and are actually coming to light

because of the current coronavirus crisis.

Mary, you can follow her on Twitter,

you can read her writings. She's often published

in Washington Post, The Washington Times. You can also follow our husband, Russ. Russ spoke at

our National Pro-Life Summit this January in Washington, D.C. He is the director of the Office of Management

Budget for the Trump administration. So I hope you'll listen

into this discussion and maybe get a little bit of perspective about what it's like to be a mother,

to be a parent to a child with cystic fibrosis. May is CF Awareness Month, so I thought this

would be a discussion you might be what want to tune into. Thanks guys. Hi everyone and welcome

to this fun Facebook live. I'm Kristen Hawkins, president of Students for Life and

Students for Life Action and the host of Exquisitely Pro-Life podcast. And tonight I'm

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