If I Could Speak: Letters from the Womb

‘Dear Mommy…’

So begins the correspondence from an unborn baby to her mother. Making an impassioned plea to her mother to not abort her, she shares her hopes and fears with the woman who can control whether she lives or dies. These letters are an appeal to all who read them to choose life.

Chapter Headings:

1. I can hear your voice
2. I would make you happy
3. You and daddy put me here
4. I would like a name
5. You were here once
6. I will take care of you one day
7. Happy Father’s Day
8. Your freedom and mine
9. God was here once
10. I’d rather be adopted than aborted
11. I wish I were a baby eagle
12. Mommy, I’m scared
13. There is forgiveness
14. Mom’s letter to Zoe
15. Zoe’s letter
16. I miss you

Endorsements

Nothing is more personal than the beginning of a child’s life in the womb—or the termination of that life by abortion. If I Could Speak gives a voice to an unborn child, and her appeals to her parents to allow her to live are deeply moving and profoundly illuminating. Using sanctified imagination and yet solemn reality, Mark Jones provides us with the best book that I have ever read to reach both mind and soul on the dreadful holocaust of abortion. You simply must read this book—it will move you to biblical tears, righteous anger and heartfelt prayer simultaneously—and then pass it on to many others.
—Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

I love the fact that Mark Jones has added his God–given skills to the call that is getting louder and louder to bring to a screeching halt the wanton slaughter of unborn babies. ‘If I Could Speak‘ is an imaginative and impassioned appeal to the conscience that enables us to hear the voice that is often drowned by our emotions. May this voice and appeal be heeded!
—Conrad Mbewe, Pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church and first Chancellor of the African Christian University, Lusaka, Zambia

Imagine granting an innocent child a public hearing before they were led off to be killed. This innovative book re–awakens to the true horrors of abortion by humanizing what’s at stake. Mark Jones has taken imaginative writing to a new level on behalf of the most vulnerable people in our world, the unborn. Can we listen to them? Will we give them a hearing?
—Tony Reinke, Writer for Desiring God & author of Lit!

… beautiful and yet unflinchingly honest, emotional and yet filled with objective truth, creative and yet focused on matters of life and death. It was written by a well–respected theologian, and yet it is very simple to read. And if this book has come in to your hands, reading it is exactly what I would encourage you to do. It won’t take long, but it may change everything.
—Megan Hill, Author of Contentment and Praying Together