In my opinion, if you are all about women, then provide your abortions for free.

Hey everyone and welcome to this special episode of explicitly pro-life.

I'm Kristen Hawkins.

And today I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And I actually have a special

guest. We're using the Equal Rights Institute studio. So thanks, Josh, for that. But I have Tanya

Nelson who's here. Tanya is the executive director of Hand of Hope pregnancy center. I just spoke

at your pregnancy center a couple of weeks ago. But I heard a lot about what you guys are up to out there in Raleigh. And I asked Tanya to come on to talk specifically about Hand of Hope, what your mission is and what you've been facing in Raleigh. I don't think your story has gotten kind of enough, you know, waves in the pro-life movement.

But I think people need to know what's been going with your pregnancy center.

So tell me, when did you start, Hand of Hope?

Why did you start it?

How long have you been doing this?

Right.

So we opened Hand of Hope pregnancy centers about 14 years ago.

And so, I mean, just to get to the meat of the matter quickly, the reason we opened it is because I had an unexpected pregnancy myself in my early 20s.

Okay.

And it was intense pressure immediately to abort my child.

And so I did not know where to go.

The only place I knew to go truly was

home to my parents. And so what a testament for how they raised me and how, because I was raised

in a Christian home, raised to be pro-life. And so I knew that I could go home to my parents.

I knew I would absolutely devastate them and their heart would be broken, but I also knew

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