A pregnant teen was sent away to a place that promised to help. Then they took her baby
hen Abbi Johnson became pregnant at 16, no one offered her a baby shower. Instead, she was sent away to a maternity home for young, unwed mothers.
In her evangelical household in North Carolina, premarital sex wasn’t just taboo — it was a sin. The mentality of “saving yourself” until marriage was the most consistent thread throughout her upbringing, she told The Independent.
Her father gave her a purity ring, proudly announcing to others that she had “promised him her virginity” until she was married. That expectation is a ritual many evangelical girls go through, reinforced by youth pastors who preach modesty and obedience, warning girls not to “tempt” boys with the way they behave or dress.
So when Abbi got pregnant back in 2008, her devout parents, ashamed and desperate to hide the fallout, sent her to the Liberty Godparent Home — a little-known maternity facility on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/liberty-university-maternity-home-podcast-b2774458.html
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