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CV NEWS FEED // Students for Life of America (SFLA)’s video campaign “Almost Aborted” has reached 18.5 million Americans since it was launched in June.
SFLA’s press specialist and online editor Jordan Estabrook told Pregnancy Help News that the campaign was a direct response to the $200 million pro-choice advertisement campaign.
“It takes stories from our campaign to counteract the fearmongering and one-sided storytelling of those who cheer and encourage the death of the preborn,” Estabrook stated, adding, “Though the ALMOST ABORTED campaign has been completed, our work to bring awareness and change is far from over.”
The Almost Abortion campaign featured “poignant first-hand accounts of individuals who have narrowly avoided the devastation of abortion, and one, sadly, who did not,” Pregnancy Help News reports.
The campaign featured a story on a woman named Vanessa Taylor. Taylor explained that her healthy baby daughter is only alive thanks to an abortion pill reversal.
Taylor said that she was pro-life and had always wanted to be a mom, and that when she found out she was pregnant, “I was really excited and I couldn’t stop touching my belly.”
However, the man she was dating at the time “stated he was not ready” and pressured her to have an abortion. His mother also pressured Taylor.
When Taylor went to her abortion appointment at Planned Parenthood, “I stated that I wasn’t doing this for myself, that I wanted to do this for my boyfriend because he made it seem like we had no other choice,” she said.
She said the staff “did not care about what emotional state I was in.”
She also said that the staff at Planned Parenthood did not allow her to see the ultrasound or listen to the heartbeat, and only handed her a photo of her baby’s ultrasound at the end of the appointment.
“They said basically I had to take the [abortion] pill in front of them before I leave, so I felt even more pressured,” Taylor continued.
She said that after taking the first pill, “she couldn’t live with herself,” and kept thinking she wanted to meet her baby.
Taylor looked into her options and found a pregnancy help center, which provided her with progesterone to reverse the abortion pill.
“I had a 24-hour window with a 60% chance of it working,” Taylor said. “I took my chances. I went to the clinic, and I saved my baby.”
“Meeting my baby was basically my favorite day of my life, and I can’t imagine living life without her,” Taylor said.
