Good afternoon. Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri, and I now live in Vero Beach and I'm so thankful to be here with you all today. Never in my life did I ever think that my two abortions would bring me to a platform like this to speak about the fact that God is real. But today I stand before you an abortion wounded woman, but by the grace of God fully healed, fully whole and fully free. I stand before the Supreme Court, and it's been a long journey. By the age of 19, I had two abortions. The first one was when I was 16. I was at Planned Parenthood in Kansas City, Missouri. The second one was by the time I was 18 at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which I just recently figured out that this one could have been harvested because I was completely asleep. 

I don't know that for a fact, but this is in my journey, and I'm going to go and research that out. In that tiny little room when I was 16 years old, the woman split a speculum across the desk, something I had never even seen at the age of 16. And she said, this is how you are going to go through this procedure. I was scared and I was alone, and my boyfriend was in the car, and I asked her if I could go get him because I wanted him to help me with this decision. She said, you won't need him. He can't help you with this now, but we can. And so the procedure continued. 

My parents were not informed, so I want to take you down a path that is a bit different, not the path of the abortion. Although after the abortion, all of us mothers were in a room. We never looked at each other, but we all knew that we had just taken the life of our child. I'll take you down this path that the aftermath and something that was not mentioned in that tiny room, depression, anger, you've heard a lot today about suicidal thoughts. But I will tell you that finally after I married the first man that I had had the abortion with, we had five children, and I now have 15 grandchildren. I am a blessed woman, but at the age of 27, I was misdiagnosed with bipolar, anger, the anger, it plagued me for 40 years. But do you know that in the Bible, the number 40 means captivity, but it also means deliverance. Anger is a primary symptom of abortion. The truth is that it's unresolved grief. Grief for something that was of a loss, the loss of my two own children at my own hands. 

Having life sucked from a mama's body, leaves her empty and grieving grief, if not dealt with, becomes anger. And we wonder why we have such an angry nation, 65 million abortions since 1973, and those mothers are still out there. When we don't value life, nothing has value. Liam Elias and Victoria Isabelle, you may ask me why would you name someone you never saw? Because they existed, their line of their generations are lost. 

But in 2017, I saw them, millions of women, millions of women as far as the eye could see. And as I watched, the closer they got and the more were added to it, they were hidden in plain sight. These women were in a dream, and I saw them coming. So, if you are wounded, a man or a woman wounded by your abortion and you're hiding in plain sight, or maybe you're hiding under the pews in the church, step out into the light. Don't be afraid. Don't continue to swallow the lie that put you on the table. You are not alone. I have been called as many here have been called to help you find, help, hope and healing. And that help, hope and healing comes through Jesus Christ alone. He is the answer for us today and for eternity. We are leading for an operation. An operation at the outcry of these women. To help the wounded. And this is why I am silent. No more.