As a young woman, Jeannie Pernea was unmarried and pregnant and feeling a lot of pressure to end the life of her child.

What would have led her to a different choice?

It would have taken one person who would have said, you know what, Jeannie?

You can have your baby.

I'm here for you and I will walk this with you.

That's all I needed.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude for January 16th, 2020.

In January of 1973, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in a really important

lawsuit. A woman under the pseudonym Jane Roe had sued a district attorney named Henry Wade.

And those two names became synonymous with abortion in the United States as the Roe versus Wade decision effectively made

abortion legal at every point in a woman's pregnancy here in our nation. And that decision has

affected millions and millions of mothers, fathers, and their children. And each one of those

stories matters. Today we'll hear one of those

stories as we mark the upcoming anniversary of that historic Supreme Court decision.

We are, Nancy, and it is quite a story. I've heard it, and it literally could be a Hollywood

movie. It has so many twists and turns in it. And I think in a lot of

ways, Jeannie Pernea's own story kind of runs parallel to the story of abortion in the U.S.

As with many young women, she was very ambitious and excited about the legalization of abortion. And so she was on the

forefront of offering abortions in Miami, as you'll hear her share in the story. She was counseling

women to get abortions. She's even undergone abortion herself. But as we've seen in the last many months, really recently, is that the

nation has turned back to understanding the value of life to some degree, and Jeannie, too, has come full

circle. And she's currently helping women in Miami and around the world say yes to life.

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