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Since working at The Catholic Sun, I’ve heard a lot of powerful testimonies from pro-life advocates. The most stirring have tended to be the testimonies from women who’ve had an abortion and regretted it.

Yvonne Florczak-Seeman will speak at 6 p.m. Feb. 20 at St. Joan of Arc Parish.

At 6 p.m. Feb. 20, St. Joan of Arc Parish will host Yvonne Florczak-Seeman, a popular author an lecturer, who will talk about her conversion to the pro-life movement.

When she was 16, Florczak-Seeman ran away with her boyfriend and got pregnant. She subsequently had an abortion. She turned to drugs to numb her regret and even tried to commit suicide. She stayed with her boyfriend, got pregnant four times and had four abortions.

Years later, she had a conversion.

Florczak-Seeman got married and had four children. Her desire to keep other women making the mistakes she made has led her to write books and become a pro-life speaker. She is the president and founder of Love from Above, Inc., which informs women about the consequences of abortion.

St. Joan of Arc and St. Joseph parishes are co-presenting the event, which will charge $10 a person and include a lasagna dinner at 6:30 p.m. For more information or to make a group reservation, call Joni at (602) 290-5026. You can also mail in a check to St. Joseph Sanctity of Life c/o St. Joseph Catholic Church, 11001 N. 40th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85028.

The dinner and talk will be at St. Joan of Arc’s Weidner Hall, 3801 E. Greenway Road in Phoenix.