Columbus, Ohio — “I’m not having this child.” Kayla was a single mom already. Her relationship with the father of her first child had disintegrated. She had just moved to California and was working as a cosmetologist while she pursued her acting dreams. It was the Covid shutdown and she was with her family in Tampa, where she grew up. She planned to stay for two weeks, but it became two months. She was in a developing relationship, and on Memorial Day morning she discovered herself pregnant. “My heart just fell to my stomach,” she recalls in video testimony. She feared losing everything she had started to build. “I had never thought of or considered abortion. . . . It was too frightening for me.” But she simply felt like she “had no other choice. This was just going to be the best outcome, the best answer, that’s it. . . . I figured the chemical abortion would be the best option, less invasive.”
She went to an abortion clinic in Florida, and a doctor oversaw the taking of the first pill. She went back to California. That night she sat waiting to see what this would do to her body. The next morning, a Gospel song woke her up. As she was about to hit snooze, she listened to the song, and “knew” she had made “a mistake.” She prayed and begged for a miracle.
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