Heart of Our Work
Testimonies of grace, truth, and love from our team at Right to Life Michiana.
March 2024
The Power of One
Camila reached out after having attended a Right to Life dinner and the Life Defenders Boot Camp.
After grappling with a long history of childhood trauma, years ago she found herself engaging in behaviors that she now knows were detrimental and contrary to her identity as a beloved daughter of God. In the midst of deep feelings of fear and brokenness, she found out she was pregnant.
Camila recounts how she spoke to no one but a friend who had been in a similar situation and chose to have an abortion. She remembers hearing, “It was all very quick…” a deceiving consolation to a young woman who felt alone and without any other choice.
Not long after, Camila was coming out of a procedure room at the local abortion facility. She felt immediately that she had made the worst mistake of her life.
Following her abortion, Camila wrestled with years of intense grief before she found healing in Christ.
This February, she looked back at the decision she made more than twenty Februarys ago, praying that God might continue to heal her heart and bring beauty from ashes. In this moment, she felt a call.
“If even one person had met me with compassion and encouragement while I was experiencing pregnancy in crisis, my story would look so much different today.”
Despite her past trauma, Camila has realized the great power of God’s grace in her life and feels strongly a desire to give it all back. In her prayer, the words came to mind, “You will never do another thing that is not for my glory.”
Connecting with Right to Life, Camila is working with the team to share her story in hopes of sparing even mothers, children, and families from the pain of abortion, using the “power of one” for God’s glory.