{"id":214013,"date":"2019-12-02T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=214013"},"modified":"2019-12-02T01:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:59:36","slug":"shoutmystory-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/shoutmystory-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Shout My Story counters #ShoutYourAbortion campaign with stories of choosing life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The abortion industry in our country has long abandoned the “safe, legal and rare” mantra that viewed abortion as a necessary evil. Now, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities promote abortion as normal, positive, and good<\/a> with the #ShoutYourAbortion<\/a> campaign and similar messaging. But the website\u00a0Shout My Story<\/a> serves as an alternative voice to this message, and tells the stories of thousands of women, men, and families who know the power of choosing life.<\/p>\n

Shout My Story<\/a> understands that women are pressured to choose abortion for all sorts of reasons: being young, being old, being poor, being uneducated, having a child with a life-altering or life-limiting medical condition, being raped, conceiving through incest, and on and on. And yet, the team writes on their website<\/a>, “There are many deep and personal reasons why women and couples choose life despite difficult, gut-wrenching situations.\u00a0We believe that life is precious, sacred, and must be protected. We believe that women deserve better than abortion for their physical and emotional health.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0I was scheduled to be aborted, but my mother had the strength to walk out of the facility that day<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shout My Story team director Cynthia Morales told Live Action News about a 36-year-old woman she met several years back who experienced an unplanned pregnancy at age 16. The woman had all the “risk factors” that supposedly make abortion a good, or at least necessary, option: teen pregnancy, motherless, African American, in school, etc. And yet, the woman chose life for her child, and showed Morales a picture of her smiling 20-year-old son in his military uniform. Morales said that Shout My Story aims to share those stories — stories in which women and families\u00a0did\u00a0<\/em>choose life, and how their lives changed for the better because of those decisions.<\/p>\n