Welcome to Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture, the podcast from Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics.

We're here today with our friend Sarah Zagorsky, who's got a fascinating story.

She is with a group called Pro Life Louisiana and has authored an article in an

upcoming book on abortion entitled Choosing Life, which is a I think the best way to describe that is a series of essays that's designed to sort of hand off the pro-life

discussion to the next generation of folks.

And her chapter is entitled surviving abortion and I have to admit Sarah

this was when I read through the table of contents in my pre-publication copy of the book yours was the first chapter that I went to because it was so the just that the title of the chapter was so arresting to me I thought I've got to read about this story and it and it did not

disappoint. It was an incredibly compelling story and so Sarah welcome we're so glad

to have you on with us and to to hear about not only your experience but what you learned from that

Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me. I just I'm so overwhelmed by God's great grace and love for us and you know I think I believe he's going to use my story for good as painful as it was

As long the journey was I I do believe in the end it will save lives. So I'm so thankful for the opportunity to share more with that with your listeners today.

So here you survived an attempted abortion. I don't think I don't think many of our listeners actually know someone

who can who can make that claim. But I'm sure there's there's just this incredible

story behind that. So I'm going to get out of the way and just

let you tell us that story about how you survived an abortion.

Sure so my birth mother she was a Hispanic immigrant from Honduras.

She became pregnant with me and the pregnancy was the result of an affair.

She had a relationship with a doctor in New Orleans and she was in crisis and what I discovered over time is she was a woman vulnerable to abortion and most of the women that she was a woman vulnerable to abortion and most of the women that she was

abortion today actually are a lot like her. She already had children at the time

she was struggling financially she lived in poverty. Her kids all had experienced foster care at some

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