Alina Clough is a writer at Evie magazine which focuses on the needs of women. For years she spoke out about a woman’s right to an abortion.
“I just thought for years that it was the compassionate thing to do,” Clough told CBN News. “I had bought into a lot of lies, specifically in college. I never really centered the unborn in the conversation.”
As a conservative commentator and Christian, Clough said her views on abortion didn’t match those of her friends in the pro-life community.
A recent conversation helped open her eyes that abortion was wrong.
“It was really just her sitting there breaking down one by one all of the misinformation that I had learned and thinking that most women just happily want abortions and realizing that a lot of women are pressured into it,” Clough explained. “By the end of that conversation, that wasn’t something that I could stand with, that the unborn truly was life and that it was worth treating that way.”
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While abortion advocates often paint pro-lifers as angry or lacking compassion Clough pushed
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