WASHINGTON, D.C., January 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Among the March for Life Rally speakers this year was a Republican Congresswoman whose daughter’s story is a testament to life, hope and divine intervention.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington introduced her daughter Abigail, 4; son Ethan, a toddler; and husband Dan from the podium as she began her speech. Her children’s interjections throughout — lovingly managed by their mother — punctuated an already poignant testimony and offered a tender snapshot of real life.
Ethan persistently vied vocally for his mother’s attention as she recounted their experience, never mind she was in the process of addressing hundreds of thousands of March for Life pilgrims. And at one point Abigail asked why she would have been crying as she described the couple’s reaction to the girl’s devastating adverse prenatal diagnosis.
“I’m telling them,” her mother explained, to laughs from the crowd.
“Unborn babies are almost magical,” Herrera Beutler began, “they’re literally swimming in stem cells, they’re in their perfect incubator, they’re responsive to the breakthrough medical treatment that we had convinced our doctor to try.”
Not long after Herrera Beutler began her second term in Congress, she and Dan
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