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Louie Gohmert: I appreciate so much my friend talking about loving the ones alive, the baby, the mother, because so often the focus is…

On the recordSeptember 24, 2021
I appreciate so much my friend talking about loving the ones alive, the baby, the mother, because so often the focus is only on mothers that have had an abortion and good for them and not on those times when their hearts are deeply broken and that love needed to nurture and care for them. I am just grateful that we worship a God that believes in second chances, and there is nothing that we can do to separate us from that love. I had the privilege of hearing a lady named Ramona Trevino. I was guest-hosting somebody's radio show, and I had her on so that more people could hear her story. {time} 1315 It is amazing. She is a brilliant, brilliant person. She was top of her class in high school, and I believe it was at 15 that she became pregnant. In the Hispanic community they had looked at her as a rising star, going to be a great leader, and then she became pregnant, and there were those who encouraged her to go ahead and have an abortion. She didn't. But she was so smart. Eventually there was an opening she saw for director of Planned Parenthood in Sherman, Texas, and so she applied. And because she was obviously so smart, she got the job. And she continued to raise her daughter. But they were teaching the people who worked at Planned Parenthood that the most important statistic that the directors reviewed in their directors' meetings were how many young girls are you able to get on birth control pills.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Sep 24, 2021

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