Mother Rebecca Rizzi, 24, discussed recently the pressure she faced to abort her twin daughters and the helping hands of those — Sherry Pierce included — that persuaded her to walk out of her Planned Parenthood appointment in Tempe, Arizona, reports Life News.

Rizzi: Initially, I had — when I found out I was pregnant — I just thought, ‘Well, I’m just going to have a baby’ and, after talking to the father when a couple days had passed and he said to me at one point — he said ‘Well, you know, Rebecca, it’s not too late; you know, we have options.’ And, knowing what he was saying, I was very offended. I was saying ‘What do you mean there are options?’ But within probably a 24- to 48-hour period after that conversation, I was solidly convinced I did have to have an abortion. I, you know, started questioning things: ‘How am I going to do this’ and, you know, ‘What resources am I going to use?’ I didn’t really have any family or friends — connections — for quite a while and, so, yeah, at that point I was just really convinced — I was determined — that ‘I have to do this.’ And I had called them and made an appointment; they explained to me what they would do — what would happen. And, I went in that day to the pre-counseling that they were going to do 24 hours prior to having the abortion.

Beck: And what did they say to you?

Rizzi: Well, the woman that I spoke to over the phone, she told me that I had to wait a couple more days beyond, you know, when I initially wanted to go in. She said I had to be at least five weeks, and she told me that there would be a 24-hour pre-counseling that I’d have to go through. She didn’t really explain what would happen in pre-counseling, just that it was it was the law, that’s what we had to do. And she said, ‘After that, we’ll make another appointment,’ and they would give me — she said that they would give me a pill to stop the pregnancy and then send me home with another pill to ‘expel’ the pregnancy, and that it would be like having your monthly cycle; that’s how she described it.

Beck: So, you go in and then what happens?

Rizzi: Well, I, driving there, I really didn’t want to — I was just hoping for anything, anything to come up that would stop me but then I just kept pushing myself. I’m like, ‘No, I just, I have to do this; I don’ really have another option.’ So, I came into the parking lot and I could, across the way, see Sherry and Pat and Lou and they were, you know, calling out. They were saying things, you know, ‘Let us help you; let us give you information. We want to help you’ when I went in the opposite direction. I went inside and, you know, they had me sign in and sit down for probably an hour past the appointment — the time that I actually had the appointment for — and she, about an hour later, they called me up so that I could pay for the appointment and then, you know, I was kind of wondering ‘How long is this going to take?’ I didn’t really want to be there; and, I sat down and, every time somebody had come in or out — every time they opened the door — you could hear them calling out, you know, still saying ‘Let us help you’ and, as morbid as it might sound, it made me smile. I liked to hear that, you know, that they were trying to save people from having to do this.

(Babies cry)

Beck: So, OK, let me just stop here for a second ’cause … we can hear the babies. I would like you both to pick the children up introduce them to the audience here in just a second.

Beck: Alright, we want to go back to Sherry and Rebecca and, Sherry, you have to be amazed at the miracle you witnessed and were a part of.

Piere: Yes, I am, and I want to give God all the glory because, truly, we are not heroes out there. He’s the hero, and it’s amazing what he did that day and that we see him continue to do.

Beck: What happened?

Pierce: Well, Rebecca, amongst other women, were going in that day and we call out ‘We are part of a ministry called Refuge in the Desert ministry, we’re born-again Christians who love the Lord know that he’s commanded us to speak for those that cannot speak up for themselves, and that’s the babies in the womb.

Beck: Can you …

Pierce: Excuse me, I’m sorry.

Beck: No, no, no. Go ahead and finish and then you have to pick up, we have to see these beautiful children.

Pierce: OK, we will. And so we call out and we let them know, ‘Hey, we have free help for you today. We have free ultrasounds, free pregnancy tests, free cash assistance, free places to live, free doula services, free counseling. Please let us help you. Children are a blessing from the Lord; they are a heritage from the Lord; they’re fearfully and wonderfully made by God, created by God in his image, by God and for God. You have no right to kill this child.’

Beck: So, Rebecca, what was it that connected with you? What, in the end, made you say, ‘OK’?

Rizzi: It was just that when she — she told me, I mean, basically, she told me, she just said that you don’t have to do this. She was asking me why I felt I had to and she said ‘No, no, you don’t, you know, have to do this.’ She said she provided me with all of these different resources I didn’t even know existed and the way that she talked about them and the way that she talked about, you know, I didn’t know I was having twins, they way that she talked about it being my baby also it made me think of it a lot differently.

Beck: Can you introduce us because, you didn’t have one baby, you had two?

Rizzi: Right!

Pierce: Come on, Olivia Grace.

Beck: You were thinking about adoption, were you not, Rebecca?

Rizzi: Yes. Initially, when she that — she actually told me, when I first met her, Sherry told me, she said, ‘Rebecca, I would adopt your baby right now if you wanted me to,’ and it made me just realize that that definitely is a very real option for people out there who would love to have — who can’t have children.

Beck: I will tell you that — I will tell you that my wife and I adopted a child from a very young mother who didn’t know what to do and we had been praying for a miracle — we couldn’t have a child — and that mom performed a miracle and delivered our child to us. And we are forever grateful and I don’t understand why more people don’t understand there are so many people that will take babies — there are so many people that will take them.

Pierce: There are so many who want them and that’s something we tell them is ‘You’re in a desperate situation. You feel desperate but there’s [sic] people desperate to have a child, and you’re an answer to their prayer. But Glenn, I want to make sure that they know that we not only offer them help but we offer them hope through the gospel of Jesus Christ because he’s the one that transforms hearts and minds. You know, the help on this earth is just temporary but repentance and faith in Jesus Christ is eternal.

Beck: You know who — you know who you remind me of?

Pierce: Who’s that?

Beck: Billy Graham. Because Billy Graham, I sat in his house one day and he said, ‘You know, you never give up the opportunity to talk about Jesus and the gospel’ and, the only thing you didn’t do is put it at the very beginning like Billy Graham used to do. God bless you.

Pierce: Well, I would have if you had talked to me first but thank you for that great compliment.

Beck: Thank you very much and God bless all four of you.

Pierce: God bless you, too, and thank you.

WATCH Part I

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WATCH Part II

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Via Lila Rose