On a hot, sunny day in late June, David Hill visited his mother in a nursing home. He had some great news.
“I’m not sure how much she could comprehend, being an Alzheimer’s patient, but she did live to see the day,” Hill, Tennessee Bible College president, said.
The significance of that “day”—June 24, 2022—was that more babies would live to see another special day. Their birthday.
That “day” also meant that the work of Billie Hill, founding president of Putnam County Right to Life, made a difference in a war against the unborn that had waged nearly half a century.
“I must say that I’d lost hope of seeing Roe v. Wade stuck down, so it was a wonderful surprise and somewhat unbelievable to me,” David Hill said of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned what had been deemed a constitutional right to abortion since Jan. 22, 1973.
Hill was just a boy at the time of the original decision, unable to comprehend the enormity of what it meant. Later, as he learned more, he wondered, “What could bring a woman to the place of taking the life of her unborn child?”
He recalled that his mother became an activist immediately after the decision.
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