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In March of 1999, I sat in a genetic counseling office, 20 weeks pregnant with my third child. One of my prenatal tests had shown an increased risk for Down syndrome, and so we were told to make this appointment as the next step in the process. The genetic counselor turned to me, and what she said next, I will never forget. “If you are going to have an abortion, you need to schedule it within the next two weeks. After that, we can’t perform the procedure at this hospital.” My husband and I were a bit stunned by the suggestion. For us, abortion was not an option, and we quickly ended the appointment and left.
Over the last few years, God had been putting a burden on my heart to reach out to women in crisis pregnancies with love and support. This experience was the wake-up call for me to do something about it. I started doing some research and found that my experience was not an exception. At abortion clinics and medical offices, many women are not being told all of their options, and if they are faced with financial uncertainty and outside pressures, they often choose abortion out of fear, feeling it was their only choice. I felt God calling me to help create a place where women wouldn’t be left saying, “Why didn’t someone ever tell me…?”
Once I answered God’s call, everything just fell into place. Within less than a year, Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center opened its doors ready to welcome women in crisis pregnancies with love and support. It has been an awesome journey over the past nine years, watching this organization grow and flourish as it meets the needs of women who are in crisis. And yet that is only part of the picture. The babies born who may not have had that chance had Turning Point not been here, the young women who have found self worth and chosen abstinence because of a purity presentation, and most importantly, the lives that have been changed because they have been introduced to Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
I have been blessed beyond words to be a part of this organization. I look forward to seeing what God is going to do in the next few years.
In Christ,
Jackie Marcum