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"Aaron" Aaron: a 5-minute video like no other BY STEVE JALSEVAC Thu Oct 04, 2012 16:08 EST Comments () I don’t want to give this one away, but you must stop for 5 minutes and watch this latest …More
"Aaron"

Aaron: a 5-minute video like no other
BY STEVE JALSEVAC
Thu Oct 04, 2012 16:08 EST
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I don’t want to give this one away, but you must stop for 5 minutes and watch this latest LifeSiteNews video. Powerful, touching and, deeply moving! It reveals so much in so little time. There is also some astonishing new information about the woman who plays the mother in the video. Watch it and then read on.

We learned something about the actress in this movie that was not known until well after the movie was completed. LifeSiteNews is interviewing persons involved and putting all the facts together for a very special report.
Stay tuned for this incredible story that will be published on LifeSiteNews on Monday. Let’s just say that the video is in many ways NOT fiction.
Undoubtedly, the impact of this video will change hearts and save lives.
LifeSiteNews has been fighting for first birthdays for over 16 years now.
Just yesterday we received this wonderful message from a reader of our “We Can End Abortion”Facebook page:
“We Can End Abortion thank you for taking the time to write about such an important issue. I have always been enjoying reading your articles and sharing them with my Facebook friends. In fact, I received an email from a friend of a friend that just wanted to thank me for pressing her to share one of your articles about abortion when she was going through a hard time deciding whether or not she should abort her baby. Thanks God your words touched her heart and she accepted her baby as a blessing from above. She is happy and enjoying her decision.”
And this email was received this past November:
“I found out about you guys on a Facebook post by the group “We can end abortion.” I just got done listening to “Mommy I’m Yours” and I have tears rolling down my face. You see, I’m pregnant with a child I didn’t plan and didn’t want, and I seriously considered having an abortion. I didn’t go through with it, but I haven’t been happy at all about this baby until I heard your song. I guess I was trying to pretend that it wasn’t really happening, that it wasn’t really a person growing inside of me. Now I realize that God has a plan for this baby, and he or she is mine to cherish and love. Thank you so much for this song, you have just made a huge difference in my life. God bless you.”
These are just two recent examples of powerful conversions and cultural change that the truthful journalism of LifeSiteNews is capable of producing – and your support is at the heart of our success.
We really do need your help in order to continue to facilitate life-changing and life-saving decisions.
All LifeSiteNews does is report and show the truth. We have seen time and time again that our reports and your follow-up actions can change the world.

One of the best pro-life short films in recent memory. See the LifeSiteNews report on this video at www.lifesitenews.com/news/wow-a-5-minute-…. Also, see the amazing follow up report "The Miracle story behind the 5-minute pro-life film touching thousands" at www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-miracle-sto…

The miracle story behind the 5-minute pro-life film touching thousands
BY CHRISTINE DHANAGOM
Mon Oct 08, 2012 17:22 EST
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Vanessa Ore, main actress in pro-life short film "Aaron."
October 8, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It’s a thought that haunts the waking hours of many post-abortive women: “what if my child were still alive?”
In a new LifeSiteNews short film published on the website last week, a young woman grapples with the question as she imagines a day at the playground with her aborted son on the anniversary of the baby’s due date. The video, titled “Aaron,” climaxes with her sitting alone on a park bench as she hears the voice of a young boy whispering: “I love you, Mom. I forgive you.”
The film was offered to LifeSiteNews for its work by Don Cobb of the American Family Association after LifeSiteNews Managing Director Steve Jalsevac saw a preview at the recent Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. Jalsevac told Cobb he found it to be one of the best pro-life shorts that he had ever seen.
The film’s script writer, Kendra White, hoped that her work would touch the hearts of her viewers, but what she didn’t anticipate was that the film’s impact would begin with the actress she hired to star in it.
White came across Vanessa Ore’s biography on the entertainment industry website IMDb while she was holding auditions for the part, and tracked her down with the help of Ore’s former agent.
Ore, who sports an impressive resume in the field of Christian film-making, was at a conference in the mountains of Nashville when she was contacted about “Aaron.” She was taken aback by the phone call from a former agent whose information she knew was not listed on her IMDb profile.
“I wasn’t even sure how she found him, so I’m just thinking God has to have orchestrated this whole situation,” Ore told LifeSiteNews.
But the unusual way in which she was contacted wasn’t the only thing that made her feel that the opportunity was providential. Ore was in the middle of a pro-life project, still under wraps, that involves helping women deal with the memories of past abortions. Vanessa herself had an abortion when she was 19 years old. She did not relate anything about this to White before or during the filming of Aaron.
Vanessa had been living in New York City at the time of the abortion, and was beginning a successful career as a sales manager at an ad agency. Her future seemed promising, and she didn’t think she could fit a baby into it.
Years later, when she had found her way to the Christian faith, married, and had three children, the reality of the abortion began to sink in.
“The process is so much deeper than people realize,” she says. “It’s a scar. It’s literally a death inside of you, physically and emotionally.”
She forgave herself for her abortion at the time of her conversion, she says, but still had a long road to travel in coming to terms with what she had been through.
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The turning point in her journey of post-abortive healing came when she was invited to a viewing of“October Baby” by one of the film’s producers. The recently released pro-life movie is about a young woman who discovers that she is the survivor of a botched abortion.
“I just lost it watching the movie,” Ore recalls. The film was an impetus for her to become more deeply involved in pro-life work. Soon after seeing the movie, she found herself not only involved in an important pro-life project but also ministering to a friend who was considering an abortion.
“I love you, no matter what you do,” Ore told her friend, “But I gotta tell you that I have to be the voice of this child right now for you.”
Her friend chose to continue the pregnancy, and Ore is now looking forward to holding the little girl whose life she helped save.
It was in the midst of these unfolding events that she received the phone call about “Aaron.”
At the time, White didn’t know anything about Ore’s personal journey, but after speaking to her on the phone and viewing a recorded audition, she says she felt a sense of peace in offering her the part. Ore was on a plane to Mississippi to begin filming within a week.
“None of this is a mistake,” the actress says, confidently. “All these things happened so quickly within a short period of time that it just blows my mind.”
She hopes, like White, that the film will not only move women in crisis pregnancies to choose life, but also touch the hearts of post-abortive women who need the same healing that she has experienced.
Already, she has connected with another post-abortive woman who stumbled across “Aaron” through a Facebook link. The woman is suffering the early stages of Alzheimers, but she still remembers and mourns for an abortion she had over 30 years ago.
“I told her that she was forgiven and that she has this baby that she will see again when she goes up to heaven,” says Ore.
That, she believes, is a key message of “Aaron,” and one of the most important messages that the pro-life movement has to offer.
The comments posted by readers and viewers beneath the LifeSiteNews introduction of the video and on the LSN YouTube page with the video attest to the power of Aaron.
The grace and mercy that post-abortive women need to experience can come only from God, Vanessa Ore says, but “as his people we can offer that hand. That speaks more than yelling at people ‘this is wrong.’”
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