{"id":243100,"date":"2021-05-01T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243100"},"modified":"2021-04-29T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:49:50","slug":"pro-black-life-abortion-bandaid-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-black-life-abortion-bandaid-bleeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Pro-Black Pro-Life: ‘Abortion is a Band-Aid. We need to understand why women are bleeding.’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Cherilyn Holloway, founder of the organization Pro-Black Pro-Life<\/a>, ending abortion begins with removing the reasons that society sees abortion as necessary. It also means supporting life from conception to natural death, and that has led her to create her own path in the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n

Holloway was just 15 years old when she sought her first abortion. Like countless women and girls, she felt she had no other choice. Years later, as a young mother, she was going through a divorce when she had a second abortion, again because she felt it was her only choice. When she learned that a pro-life pregnancy center had been there in her hometown all of those years, she wondered why no one around her seemed to know about the services the center provided.<\/p>\n

What she also didn’t know was that she would soon become the executive director of that pregnancy center, coming full circle from the young girl in the abortion clinic to the woman helping others to avoid that same fate.<\/p>\n

Raised to fight injustice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holloway grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, a small liberal town that is home to the first college to admit Black students and which has ties to the Underground Railroad. Holloway was raised to stand against injustice. But she says that desire for justice met her pro-life views “in a really odd place.”<\/p>\n

“In 2018, I went to the Pro-Life Women’s Conference and I met someone who shared a statistic with me about abortion in the Black community, which I had no idea,” she told Live Action News. “And I was really confused at why. […] I didn’t understand by looking at these numbers that were from the CDC [Centers for Disease Control] why nobody was telling the Black community this. Well, it turns out people were<\/em> telling the Black community, but the bigger issue was that they weren’t willing to listen to the other issues that were happening in the Black community.”<\/p>\n

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