It can also be beautiful… Pregnant at fifteen-years-old, and choosing to keep her child, Laura Lynn Hughes, knew that her life would never be the same. Through her compelling story and the stories of others — parents struggling with miscarriage, infertility, abusive relationships, addictions, abortions, and those mourning the children they placed for adoption — we witness beauty and redemption rising from the ashes of lost hope.

Choose Zoe: A Story of Un-Planned parenthood and the Case for Life (Red Arrow Media, September 4, 2018) tells Laura’s testimonial of how her unplanned pregnancy turned out to be a beautiful gift from God and embedded the pro-life cause deep within her heart. 

Laura’s book is centered around the Greek word, Zoe, which means Life, and it refers to the abundant life Jesus came to give us, referenced in John 10:10. Choose Zoe helps readers to choose hope in the face of despair while living with mercy and compassion, and believing we serve a good God who holds our futures in His hands.

For young mothers, fathers, community leaders, and pastors, Laura’s stories offer practical tools and guidance for an unplanned pregnancy, providing hope, courage, and healing.

Today, Laura Lynn Hughes is a mother of five children and grandmother of eleven. Laura volunteers at her local Alpha Pregnancy Clinic and Alpha Mobile Unit, and is the co–founder of A Movement of Love ministry, serving as a speaker and teacher about pregnancy, fetal development, and post–abortion trauma and recovery in community colleges, high schools, and conferences, both nationally and internationally. In addition to her volunteer work, Laura operates a Northern California photography studio, Images By Hughes. The infant daughter whom Laura chose to raise as a fifteen-year-old unwed mother is now an adult, wife and mother of four children of her own, and serves her community as a school psychologist.