CYPRESS, Calif.—Alissa Creech was ordered by her then-partner to abort her baby after finding out she was pregnant earlier this year. After she refused, he cut all ties with her.
“I couldn’t even take care of myself at the time, let alone my son,” Creech, 20, told The Epoch Times.
As one of many helpless mothers who received “life-saving” care from Precious Life—a Los Alamitos-based women’s shelter for pregnant women in need—Creech was a special speaker at a West Orange County Republican Women’s Federated meeting Nov. 19 in Cypress.
Alissa Creech (L) and Theresa Murphy, executive director of Precious Life, a Los Alamitos-based women’s shelter for pregnant women in need, speak at a West Orange County Republican Women’s Federated meeting in Cypress, Calif., on Nov. 19, 2022. (Carol Cassis/The Epoch Times)
Creech already had her first child by 16, but he was later taken by Child Protective Services in the midst of her drug and alcohol addiction which began when she was 13….