That is Ms. Kristin Turner, living in northern California. In an interview for the recent program of the "Eternal Word" Television Station (EWTN), the Catholic news agency CNA in the US broadcast on June 24, she said that she had been bullied by her high school teacher. After studying sexual abuse and pregnancy, she had an abortion and became involved in defending and promoting abortion. She once spoke in activities about this issue and explained "Why abortion is good for society".
But after learning more about abortion, Ms. Kristin Turner reconsidered her pro-abortion stance and became a pro-life advocate. “I see this violence against myself as violence against an unborn fetus, whose body is not considered human, whose body is not respected,” she said. , so it can be destroyed."
With that awareness, Kristin saw what she had to do, but "as a feminist and a progressive, I thought there was no place for me in the pro-life movement."
Still, she decided to start advocating for life: “First I joined the pro-life group at the university where I studied, then founded my own organization called “Take Feminism Back”, Bringing Feminism Back , to help pregnant women and those in need, promote progressive social change that includes everyone from womb to grave.”
For two years now (2021), Kristin Turner has been the Communications Director of a prominent organization standing up against abortion (Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, PAU ChauU), with the mission of "enforcing social and political justice for pregnant women." children before birth, through efforts to encourage those who are committed to opposing abortion through direct abortion activities, helping them clearly see the true nature of abortion.
During these activities, Kristin Turner felt drawn to the Catholic Church. “It was through those activities and seeing how useful an act of sacrifice could be and how transformative an act of sacrifice could be that I felt drawn to the Church, and just looking at sacrifice,” she said. birth of Jesus and what God wants to do to humanize and help save our lives."
Kristin mentioned the many Catholics involved in the pro-life movement who told her about the Church.
In a Twitter post last May 29, she wrote: “There is a hole God created in my heart. I tried to fill it with everything under the sun but I couldn't. I need Him as much as He needs me.”
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