{"id":246985,"date":"2021-06-18T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=246985"},"modified":"2021-06-16T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:11:59","slug":"window-womb-program-high-school-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/window-womb-program-high-school-life\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Window to the Womb’ program gives high school students new appreciation for preborn life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the seventh time since 2014, senior high school students from Effingham, Illinois, recently got a look at life in the womb thanks to a unique partnership between their school, the community pregnancy resource center, and the local hospital.<\/p>\n

‘Window to the Womb<\/a>‘ is the brainchild of Effingham resident Valerie Kemme, who conceived the idea after reading articles about the high percentage of abortion-vulnerable women who choose to keep their babies after viewing ultrasounds.<\/p>\n

Kemme wondered, “What if we were able to get everybody to see an ultrasound?” Aware that the abortion industry acts as if “that’s not a baby” inside the pregnant woman’s body, Kemme thought, “Wouldn’t it click with so many more people if they would see what’s really going on in the womb, then they would value life?”<\/p>\n

Kemme’s first contact was with the religion teacher at the local Catholic high school “to see if they were even open to having the students even have this kind of experience.” While the teacher was very enthusiastic, getting buy-in from the hospital proved more challenging initially. Kemme and the teacher started with a bottom-up approach, speaking to staff at various departments in the hospitals, who were all supportive of the idea;\u00a0however, a champion was still needed to make the project a reality.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately, Kemme told Live Action News, “It was kind of a God thing. I was talking to somebody about another project and they mentioned this director of philanthropy at the hospital… it kind of clicked with me, ‘Hmm. Maybe we could talk to the director of philanthropy and he would know who we could talk to.'” Once she spoke to the director, she said “he jumped on it; he was really on board and within a week he was talking to the heads of the imaging department and the CEO of the hospital, and the CEO is actually who made this project possible.”<\/p>\n