{"id":262528,"date":"2022-02-11T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=262528"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T19:29:09","slug":"super-bowl-star-almost-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/super-bowl-star-almost-aborted\/","title":{"rendered":"Because his mom refused abortion, this Los Angeles Rams player went to the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A player in this weekend’s Super Bowl LVI got a chance at every football player’s dream \u2014\u00a0and it’s all because his mother chose life despite intense pressure to have an abortion more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n

Bradley Mattes of the Life Issues Institute wrote<\/a>\u00a0about the previously unknown story of Marquise Copeland, a defensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams. According to Mattes, Marquise’s mother Tenisha Copeland faced immense pressure to have an abortion while pregnant with him \u2014 but thanks to the help and support of a pro-life ministry, she was empowered to give birth to her son and raise him.<\/p>\n

“The pressure she endured from family and friends to abort was so intense, it put her in a state of clinical depression, requiring hospitalization,” Mattes wrote. “When Tenisha came to Open Door, she did so directly from the hospital.”<\/p>\n

Open Door is a maternity home<\/a> in Ohio, founded by Greg and Annie Miller. The Millers created it as a “residential ministry,” with Annie specifically viewing each mother who stayed with them as a spiritual daughter, and the children born to them as her grandchildren. The ministry continued to support the mothers and babies after birth.<\/p>\n