On September 10, 2003, VSHL’s Executive Director Eileen Roberts joined other women from across the nation in front of the Supreme Court in speaking out about the suffering caused by abortion in our country. She joined actress Jennifer O’Neill, the national spokesperson for the Silent No More Campaign, Olivia Gans of the National Right to Life Committee and Karen Cross, Executive Director of West Virginians for Life, among others.

The Silent No More Campaign is an effort to make the public aware of the devastation abortion brings to women, men and their families. Jennifer O’Neil was a recipient of the Proudly Pro-Life Award given by the National Right to Life Committee in April of 2003. She spoke of the lies she was told before her abortion, that her baby was not a baby but just a blob of tissue, and of the pain she has suffered since then. “We need to get the truth out,” she said.

Olivia Gans, director of American Victims of Abortion, agreed that she also had not been told the truth. “No one gave us the wealth of information every woman has the right to have before she has an abortion,” she said. (Olivia Gans can be reached at NRLC at 202-626-8832,)

Eileen Roberts spoke out with the others sharing her family’s story of suffering the consequences of her teen daughter’s secret abortion in 1987. “Over 200,000 minor aged girls have abortions every year in America, without their parent’s knowledge or consent, and mothers and grandmothers like me will not be silent”, said Mrs. Roberts.

Published in VSHL Lifesaver, October 2003