Turner said she came to her decision through “a lot of small things,” but her involvement in pro-life advocacy played a big part.
After suffering abuse by a high school teacher and thinking she had become pregnant by that abuse, she researched abortion further.
After that, Turner said, she “had to reconsider” her pro-abortion position.
“I realized this act of violence against me is parallel to the act of violence committed against an unborn child who is not seen as fully human, and whose body is not respected, and therefore can be violently violated,” Turner told Prudence Robertson in a recent interview on “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly.”
“And when that happened,” Turner said, “I knew I had to do something.”
However, she said, “as a feminist … and as somebody who’s progressive and still is progressive, I thought there wasn’t a place for me in the pro-life movement.”