The Untold Story of America's "Abortion King" and One Woman's Mission to Share His Pro-Life Conversion

Claire Chretien : Feb 13, 2017
LifeSiteNews.com

"Dr. Nathanson knew that in order to push this pro-abortion campaign forward back in 1969, they needed to frame the debate around 'choice.'" -Terry Beatley

[LifeSiteNews] Many pro-lifers are familiar with the conversion story of former abortionist and NARAL founder Dr. Bernard Nathanson, but fewer know the full story of how he convinced Americans to embrace abortion. (Photo: Dr. Bernard Nathanson/via LifeSiteNews.com)

One woman is on a mission to change that because of a promise she made to Nathanson when he was dying of cancer.

That woman is Terry Beatley, the founder and president of the Hosea Initiative. She got her start in pro-life ministry doing outreach to minority communities, educating them about Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's racist, pro-eugenics agenda.

In 2009, "I was just being obedient to the Lord" when the idea to meet with Nathanson came to her, Beatley told LifeSiteNews. She was at a 24-hour-prayer vigil at her church when she asked God what He wanted her "to do with these experiences and this head full of information."

"All I could hear back was, 'go and interview Dr. Bernard Nathanson,'" she said. "Within about two weeks, I was on a plane [on] December 1, 2009, and it literally changed my life forever."

Nathanson, one of the founders of the powerful abortion lobby group NARAL Pro-Choice America, committed more than 60,000 abortions. He gradually began to realize that abortion kills a whole, distinct, living human being and eventually became one of the strongest voices in the pro-life movement.

When Beatley met with Nathanson, "it was just a very heavy interview," she said. He told Beatley to "teach the strategy" of how he deceived our country about abortion. Then he told her, "Tell America that the co-founder of NARAL Pro-Choice America says to love one another. Abortion's not love; stop the killing. The world needs more love, and I'm all about love now." (Book cover via LifeSiteNews.com)

"The only time" Beatley saw a "glimmer of hope" in Nathanson's eyes was when she promised him, "America's going to know your story, how you deceived our country."

Out of this promise the Hosea Initiative was born. Its mission is to bring healing truth to a broken world by teaching the eight-point marketing strategy Nathanson used—and later regretted—to convince people to support abortion.

Through speaking engagements, pro-life activism, and her new book, What if We've Been Wrong? Keeping My Promise to America's "Abortion King," Beatley is sharing Nathanson's full story.

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