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‘Let Them Live’ Is There for Pregnant Moms Who Feel Abandoned: Entrepreneur and Pro-Life Activist
Emily Berning and her husband unwittingly started their business journey when they donated the last $1,200 in their bank account to a pregnant mom who was planning to have an abortion.
Berning, who is now president of a crowdfunding organization Let Them Live, told The Epoch Times’ Crossroads program on Feb. 25 that one of the most common reasons for women to have an abortion in the U.S. is financial hardship or poverty.
“We’ve found that 73 percent of women have abortions because of financial reason[s], which is a huge chunk,” Berning said. “So we realized those abortions are 100 percent preventable.”