Hey everyone, welcome to this new episode of explicitly pro-life.

I'm Kristen Hawkins.

And thanks for coming and joining us this week and spending time.

And I'm really excited because I have my friend Christina Bennett, who is here with me for this special podcast.

Christina has a great story.

She was actually scheduled to be aborted. So I've asked her to kind of come on today

to talk about your personal story, why you fight, you know, so fiercely for the preborn and their mothers.

But then also, you're in Connecticut. And so I see your Facebook, your Instagram posts. You're

working for the Family Policy Council.

Family Institute.

Family Institute there in Connecticut.

But the pregnancy centers in Connecticut are coming under attack.

And I feel like we really need to talk about this of how the pregnancy centers are coming under attack.

What's being said?

How can we fight back?

Because the pregnancy centers and the pregnancy medical centers,

you know, there are the front lines of the pro-life movement. And they're the ones who are out

there in the community, reaching her and truly being the alternate place to go to on Planned

Parenthood. And so we as a pro-life movement need to know about this and step up here. So

tell me your story, Christina. And why are you here and how did you get here? Sure. Well, thank you for having me, Kristen, and thank you for everyone that's watching and listening. So I am from Connecticut, as you shared, and I did not grow up in a pro-life family. I'd never heard abortion talked about in my family. I'd never heard abortion talked about in any church that I went to growing up. And so I really... You talked about that before on the podcast. Yes. So I just didn't, you know, it wasn't an issue for me. It wasn't something I really put much thought into until I was in college and someone had approached me, I was going to church and someone had approached

me and said, I feel like God wants you to know that something remarkable had happened around the time

of your birth. And I thought, okay, so I asked my mother what that was. And she was really hesitant

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