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Jessica Williams stood in front of the crowded banquet hall with her one-year-old daughter, Kaylie. Her ex-husband’s hateful words flooded her brain: “Monkey, screaming baby, she should have been aborted…poster child.”

As she looked across the room of donors, volunteers, medical professionals, and all the many people who had enabled her to choose life, Jessica felt overjoyed that she had not succumbed to her husband’s abortion coercion. She felt proud that her daughter was quite literally a “poster child” for the national pro-life safety net. Without the very people in that room, Kaylie would never have been born.

Jessica discovered she was pregnant with Kaylie after a short-lived fling when she was at a difficult point in her marriage. When Jessica’s husband found out she was pregnant with another man’s baby, he told her he wanted to work through things but had one condition: she needed to have an abortion.

Jessica never thought she’d be in such a situation. She was an ER nurse who loved all things related to pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood. She had also struggled to get pregnant for years, suffering miscarriages before delivering her three children. She never thought she’d even consider choosing to end, rather than create life.

Yet her husband was aggressively pressuring her, and the drama between him and Kaylie’s father became so intense that abortion seemed like the only way to end the pain and turmoil her family was going through.

Jessica took the first drug of the two-drug abortion regimen around 9-10 weeks’ gestation. Her husband sat with her as thoughts raced through her head: Should I have this abortion to save my marriage, family and home? Or do I have this baby with a stranger and uproot my family’s whole life?

Jessica’s doubt increased as she sat in her room contemplating the effects the drug, called mifepristone, was actively having on her unborn daughter. As an ER nurse, she was well-versed in how the drug worked. So, when she realized what would happen next, she was distraught: “My baby is probably still alive inside of me…and potentially I was going to be birthing or expelling a live baby,” she recalled, “and that this baby was probably going to take its final breaths coming out of me.”

“My mind was going crazy,” she said. “I love women’s health…I was an ER nurse…so here I am saving people’s lives – and like, over here about to take one.”

Jessica found Abortion Pill Reversal online and rushed with her mom to get an ultrasound at a First Choice Pregnancy Services center near her home in Las Vegas. There, she discovered her baby’s heart was still beating, and she quickly followed APR protocol to have the best chance of reversing the effects of the first drug.

Yet Jessica’s husband was upset over her choice and did everything he could to coerce her into an abortion. He left Post-it notes on her mirror reminding her to schedule appointments, telling her she was making a mistake.

Around this time, Jessica was also struggling financially. She had to take on loans after she was laid off at one job and didn’t have insurance at the other ones where she was working.

The cumulative toll was so much that Jessica ended up making several appointments at various abortion facilities to abort her baby throughout her pregnancy. Her husband drove her to one of the appointments, but when the couple turned down the street that the abortion center was on, Jessica realized it was the same street as the First Choice Pregnancy center she had visited for APR.

“I can’t do this,” she recalled saying, adding that she couldn’t bring herself to take her baby’s life right near where it had been saved.

Jessica eventually divorced her husband when she was eight months pregnant. She ultimately connected with She Found His Grace Ministry and the Let Them Live organization, both of which offered her the support and emotional strength she’d long needed.

Jessica couldn’t believe that the women involved in these organizations were willing to help however she needed. For example, she had prior bad experiences with hospital births which made her desperate to deliver at home, but she couldn’t afford it. So, she was overcome when the women at Let Them Live offered to pay for her midwife.

“I literally dropped to my knees and cried for a minute straight,” Jessica recounted.

The women at She Found His Grace even threw her a baby shower. “[I am] so blessed and grateful for them,” she said.

In October, Jessica delivered her perfectly healthy, beautiful daughter, Kaylie Grace, who, Jessica says, is all smiles, beauty, and humor. Jessica chose Grace as Kaylie’s middle name in honor of the organization She Found His Grace, which showed her consistent support throughout her pregnancy and after Kaylie’s birth.

Kaylie has been thoroughly examined and has no side effects from the abortion drug mifepristone, thanks to APR.

“She is truly such a blessing,” Jessica said. She began to cry as she added, “I have moments where I just look at Kaylie, and I cry. I am going to cry now because it’s good…I’m so happy and grateful to have her. She is such a joy, and she brings such joy to all our lives. It’s that thing you didn’t know was missing.”

Now, Jessica is overjoyed that she did not succumb to the pressure to abort. She is beyond grateful that Kaylie can be a “poster child” for organizations like First Choice Pregnancy Center to show women the joy they have in store, and the abundant support available to them.

As Jessica looked out into the sea of faces who supported her, she had a simple message:

“Thank you so much for saving my baby.”