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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>)\u00a0Sitting in a fundraising class in Columbus, Ohio, this summer, Becky Carter, executive director of Juneau Pregnancy Resource Center, began to tear up as she connected the dots between the speaker before her and her very own daughter.<\/p>\n

Before joining\u00a0Heartbeat International<\/a> in 2015, Boston had been stationed for nearly twenty years at the Pregnancy Care Center in Springfield, Missouri, serving pregnant women and helping rescue unborn babies from abortion.<\/p>\n

As Carter pieced together Boston\u2019s background, she realized that Boston\u2019s clinic had to have been the one her daughter Nila had visited ten years ago as a confused 23-year-old looking for help.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll all go away\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pregnant and far from her home and parents in Juneau, Alaska, Nila drove to the local Planned Parenthood where she lived in Missouri. Her plan was to have an abortion, but that decision was a world apart from what she\u2019d grown up believing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in a Christian home, so I had always been taught and always believed that abortion was wrong,\u201d she said in a video testimonial about her pregnancy. \u201cBut when you put someone in a situation where they feel backed into a corner in life with the consequences of their actions, (abortion\u2019s) going to be an option, it\u2019s going to run through their head.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got pregnant, I was not in a healthy space, spiritually, mentally, emotionally and even in the relationship that I was in. Nothing about my lifestyle or my life was healthy during that time. So the possibility and prospect of bringing a child into that situation was just daunting. Nothing in my life was going the way that I thought it would go and putting a baby into that environment was terrifying.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Sobbing in the Planned Parenthood parking lot, Nila asked God why He had put her in this situation. She went inside and filled out the paperwork. The receptionist put her hand on Nila\u2019s and told her, \u201cYou\u2019re doing the right thing. Everything will be fine. It\u2019ll all go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething that my dad always said was that, \u2018If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is,\u2019\u201d Nila remembered. \u201cAnd as soon as (the receptionist) said that, I got this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach going, \u2018This is not what God wants either, and two wrongs don\u2019t make a right.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Nila and her son, Planned Parenthood didn\u2019t have the chemical abortion pill regimen on hand. Instead, they scheduled her for an appointment for a few days later at another location in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

The few days between the appointments gave her time for a heart-to-heart with a friend. Listening to Nila\u2019s concerns, the friend suggested that she check out the local pregnancy center just to see all the options that were available to her.<\/p>\n

That visit brought her right through Cindi Boston\u2019s doors and saved her child\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Nila and her son (Photo from original post at Pregnancy Help News)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cGod wanted this child to be in the world\u201d<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

Nila nervously entered the pregnancy help center, still highly cognizant of all of the factors that seemed to be working against her and her child.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The center staff listened to her concerns and helped her to see the situation in a new light.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThey kept encouraging me that I could do this, whether it was on my own or with the help of parents or family or friends–that God wanted this child to be in the world,\u201d Nila said tearfully. \u201cSo he is. And I\u2019m so thankful for the resource center that I went to because they gave me the confidence I needed to have a child on my own and they gave me the confidence that I needed and the skills and the education that I needed to care for a child, to bring up a child in God\u2019s Word, to be the best parent that I could be regardless of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with the challenges that came with single-parenthood, Nila says that having her son was worth it all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still consequences to that decision,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are still people that look at the date my son was born and the date that I got married and see that they don\u2019t add up, and then I do get some sideways glances sometimes, but I don\u2019t even care anymore because my son is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me. And I could not have been the kind of parent that I wanted to be without the thoughtful conversations and thoughtful counseling and the education resources that I got from the resource center in my town.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Person Who Saved Her Grandson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ten years later at Pregnancy Help Institute in Ohio, Nila’s story replayed in the back of Becky Carver’s head. Listening to Boston and taking in the realization of who she was, Carter texted her daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Who did you speak to? Who was your counselor when you went to the center in Springfield?\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd my daughter said, \u2018Well, her name was Cindi, but I think she was the director.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer took Carter\u2019s breath away.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo as Cindi was up there talking, I\u2019m just sitting there bawling, just thinking that in December of this year, my oldest grandson\u2019s going to be 10,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, it just hit me…how many people get the chance to meet the person who saved their grandson?\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the room, Sara Littlefield, Life Launch Grant Program Specialist for Heartbeat International, saw Carter crying and soon the story came out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look over and I see Becky start crying, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh gosh, what\u2019s going on? Is she overwhelmed? Does she need something?\u2019\u201d Littlefield said. \u201cAnd she starts sharing the story. None of us knew. Our jaws were on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continue reading the entire story at Pregnancy Help News<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Pregnancy Help News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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