White House Media Director Sonny Joy Nelson: I’m Here Because My Mom Rejected Abortion

A poignant witness to the beauty of pregnancy help took place at a White House staff briefing this past Tuesday as an aide to U.S. President Donald Trump shared how her life hung in the balance because of unexpected pregnancy with repercussions for many lives across generations.

“I have an amazing job, and I work at the highest level of politics,” Special Assistant to the President and White House Director of Media Affairs Sonny Joy Nelson said. “But it is only by the grace of God that I’m here and standing here and able to do this.”

Nelson was addressing a briefing with Heartbeat International and mothers and their children Heartbeat brought to Washington D.C. for its Babies Go to Congress initiative.

Heartbeat is the largest network of pregnancy help organizations in the United States and globally and has brought more than 180 moms and babies to Capitol Hill to tell their stories in almost 400 Congressional offices since Babies Go to Congress began in 2009.

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The mothers sharing their personal stories with their children and pregnancy help personnel at their side provides living example of how pregnancy centers are good for America.

The briefing in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building was arranged by the White House Office of Public Liaison and also included Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner, and Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Domestic Policy Council Dr. Heidi Overton.

But it was the White House Media Affairs Director with a pregnancy help story to tell at the briefing – and a special tie to one of the pregnancy center representatives present with the Heartbeat group.

“I have a personal story, much like many of you, where God himself intervened for my life and I’m going to try to not cry because it’s very personal as it is to each of you,” Nelson said.

“My mom found herself pregnant in her early twenties, unmarried and with baby daddy who did not think that I should have a chance at life,” she shared.

“He pressured my mom heavily to choose abortion with me,” Nelson said. “And he made it very clear that she had a decision to make; it was either him or it was me, and we see how that turned out … So, it just so happens that she is here in the crowd sitting there with you.”

Nelson was referencing Hand Of Hope Pregnancy Resource Centers founder and CEO Tonya Baker Nelson, who was taking part in Babies Go to Congress with a mom and baby served by one of her centers.

“My mom made a courageous decision to choose life for me,” Nelson told the moms and babies present, “just like you have chosen life for your little ones in the face of many obstacles.”

“And just to brag on her for a minute,” Nelson added, “following that decision, in the 29 years since that decision, she has opened three pregnancy centers in North Carolina and is responsible, her and Jesus, in the saving of thousands of lives.”

“And needless to say, you are a super woman in my eyes,” Nelson told her mother from the podium.

She shared this with the Babies Go to Congress group for encouragement, she said.

“While going through one of the darkest times of her life, struggling with the decision to choose life for her child, I don’t think that she envisioned that one day her child would be working at the White House,” said Nelson.

“I truly believe that God is going to bless each of you infinitely for the courageous decision that you have made to choose life for all of your babies, and He already has,” she told the moms.

“As we know, motherhood is one of the most precious gifts,” Nelson said.

She told the Heartbeat International group that she and Karoline Leavitt talk about it all the time, both having young children.

“Your baby could be the next president; they could be the next White House press secretary,” Nelson said. “They could be the next Secretary of Housing Urban Development.

But regardless of what your child grows up to be or to do, you have your baby, and that’s the most important thing, she said, going on to underscore the sanctity of human life.

“Your value as a human is not based on your job or your income or your status or anything material,” Nelson said. “Your value is rooted firmly in who Jesus says that you are and that is priceless.”

That’s one thing that makes it worth it, she explained, acknowledging that motherhood often comes with tough decisions.

Being a working mom and leaving your baby every day is difficult, she said. But the moms in the administration do so committed to the goal of saving and bettering Americans’ lives through policy. She said she was grateful for the administration’s view of her life and the moms’ and their babies’ lives as worthy of protecting.

“I don’t know any of you. I don’t really know all your stories,” Nelson said. “But I can tell you as the person who was once the little baby whose life was deemed unworthy by some, I think I speak for all of us who are given a chance at life when I say we are so proud of you mamas. We are so proud of you for making the tough decisions and for valuing our lives and for seeing us as worthy for a chance at life.”

The Lord hasn’t given you something that you and He can’t handle together, she told them and commended their courage for sharing their stories with federal lawmakers.

“You’ve already made your babies so proud,” Nelson said, “not only for choosing life for them, but for just being here today, for being here on the White House Complex, for walking through the halls of the Capitol, for taking your babies to see your lawmakers and for being the face of the pro-life fight.”

In doing this the mothers were intervening for the lives of future defenseless children, she said, encouraging them to not stop using their voice for the voiceless.

Nelson quoted a favorite Bible verse, Genesis 50:20, which says, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is being done now, the saving of many lives.”

“I’m blown away at how I’ve seen this unveiled in my own life, as I’m sure many of you are as well,” Nelson said. “Thank you for being here and taking the time to put yourselves out there and for standing up for what’s right.”

LifeNews Note: Lisa Bourne is Managing Editor of Pregnancy Help News and Content Writer for Heartbeat International. This originally appeared at Pregnancy Help News.