In 1981, Christina Bennett's mother walked into a Connecticut abortion clinic, with plans to undergo the procedure.
She had even paid for the procedure when a clinic custodian approached her in the waiting room.
"The custodian told her that 'God would grant her the strength to have this baby,'" Bennett told an audience gathered Tuesday in the Old Main Academic Center auditorium. "So, she walked out of the clinic and the rest is history. And now, here I am.
"I would have been dismembered, thr
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