When she became pregnant at 12 years old, Tori Popham’s mother made the same decision parents around the country have made since the Rev. Jerry Falwell founded the Liberty Godparent Home in 1982.
By the time Popham turned 13 in 1991, she was on her way to the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She would spend the next several months living in the Godparent Home, a residential maternity home on the campus of the evangelical university.
“My dad wanted me to get an abortion, and I was very against it,” Popham recalled on St. Louis on Air. “I was from St Louis, and this was all the way in Virginia. I was very scared, very worried about it. I did not want to go.”…