{"id":316767,"date":"2024-08-08T06:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=316767"},"modified":"2024-08-07T18:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T23:05:53","slug":"before-scheduled-abortion-rwandan-mom-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/before-scheduled-abortion-rwandan-mom-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The day before her scheduled abortion, a young Rwandan mom learns the truth and embraces life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/i>(Human Life International<\/a>) Seventeen-year-old Laurence was scheduled to have an abortion the next day. The Rwandan teenager had been impregnated by the man who was recruiting her to promote contraceptive use among her fellow students. A providentially timed school workshop by Human Life International Rwanda opened Laurence\u2019s eyes to the truth about abortion, and she chose life for her preborn baby.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human Life International Rwanda teaches high school students about abstinence and educates them on the long-term damage caused by contraceptive use and abortion. The program invites young people like Laurence to apply prayer and other Christian disciplines in pursuit of a chaste life.<\/span><\/p>\n

With her abortion already set for the following day, Laurence approached the Human Life International Rwanda team for help. She wanted to keep her baby, and she wanted to pursue a more spiritual, chaste life. Having been recruited to promote contraceptives among her peers by the pro-abortion advocate who fathered and then paid for her baby\u2019s abortion, Laurence was in need of support on several levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Human Life International Rwanda staff helped Laurence tell her mother about her preborn baby and elicit a commitment to help with the child so that Laurence could return to school after the birth. They assisted with medical fees, baby supplies, and negotiating a leave of absence from, and eventual return to, school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rwanda has one of highest population densities in sub-Saharan Africa, thus making it a favorite target of population control proponents. More than 65 percent of the populace is under age 30, and this marks schools as a popular place for those promoting contraceptives and abortion to push their \u201cculture of death\u201d practices according to Human Life International Rwanda Director Aloys Ndengeye.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ndengeye explained how Health Development Initiative Rwanda (HDI) is mobilizing abortion and contraceptive use among youth under the pretext of reducing teen pregnancies. This, despite the fact that abortion is illegal in predominately Christian, highly Catholic, Rwanda. Like International Planned Parenthood Federation, HDI makes a practice of regularly visiting the area\u2019s public schools. This, he added, has resulted in \u201cincreasing venereal diseases, sexualizing our youth, and killing innocent preborn babies through abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Brian Clowes, Human Life International\u2019s Director of Education and Research, sees Laurence\u2019s story as representative of many young women who have been influenced by the deadly messaging of population control proponents.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLaurence was faced with an unexpected pregnancy in her native Rwanda. The only option offered her by Western population control groups was abortion. But then she heard a pro-life presentation by Human Life International the day before her abortion was scheduled, and she chose life for her baby. We are strongly reminded of the Biblical wisdom of Proverbs 18:17, which says \u2018He who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him,\u2019\u201d shared Clowes. \u201cThis is the task of all of the pro-life groups all over the world: to offer life-affirming options that the groups marketing abortion deliberately do not mention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n