Marilyn Nevarez is a member of Church@TheRock in Brooklyn, whose fellow life advocates were dragged into court in a federal harassment lawsuit by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. These pro-life sidewalk counselors, represented by the Thomas More Society, have been offering life-affirming alternatives to women outside the Choices Women’s Medical Center abortion facility in Jamaica, New York.

“I remember one Saturday there was a couple who was going in and I said to the girl, ‘We can help you….’ They accepted the material we were handing out, and they went in anyway. Ten minutes later they came back out. The young man said to me, ‘You said you can help us.’ I said, ‘Yes we can.’ The good news about this is they ended up having their baby.”

Marilyn lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Jose. They have been members of Church@TheRock for over seventeen years where Marilyn is part of an outreach ministry offering life-saving alternatives to abortion-bound mothers. An incredibly effective sidewalk counselor, she appeals for the lives of the unborn, and offers hope and help to those who will take it, who choose to save the lives of their babies.

“I knew there were girls out there who believed the babies were just tissue. 25 years ago, I saw my baby’s heartbeat and that changed my life. I went from radically being pro-choice to pro-life.”