If I Could Speak: Letters from the Womb

by Mark Jones

'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:

I can hear your voice I would make you happy You and daddy put me here I would like a name You were here once I will take care of you one day Happy Father's Day Your freedom and mine God was here once I'd rather be adopted than aborted I wish I were a baby eagle Mommy, I'm scared There is forgiveness Mom's letter to Zoe Zoe's letter I miss you

72 pages, Hardcover

Published January 10, 2020

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Reviews

[Alan Rennê · Rating 5 out of 5]

Um livro que bota marmanjo pra chorar fácil!

Lindo! Comovente!

[Emilio Garofalo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incrivelmente belo, triste e comovente. Um livro que pode, literalmente, salvar vidas.

[Zack · Rating 5 out of 5]

A powerful series of hypothetical letters written from an unborn child (Zoë) to her mother, who ends up aborting her at 20-or-so weeks. The book ends with a letter from the mother seeking forgiveness 10 years later. It’s a beautiful, tragic, informative, theological, and moving book in which words and images unite to persuade the reader that life is a gift. I highly recommend this.

[P.J. Mills · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dear Mommy,

I love you.

'How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard' (A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh).

For me the beginning turned out to be the end.

I love you; I wish you loved me too.

Zoe


I am grateful to Mark Jones for writing this powerful book. Drawing on science, theology, logic, culture, and raw emotion, this book is vital for the present days in which we are now living. Abortion is a modern holocaust of collosal proportion. I pray this short but powerful book will prove to be a valuable and perhaps even a life saving resource for many.

[Miranda Rzezz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so beautifully written through a child in the wombs perspective. This book is depressing because the mom still chooses to abort the precious life in the womb. But it is beautiful because it shows the forgiveness of Christ towards His people if they repent of their sins. I teared up I was genuinely moved by this book.

[Zachary Bonura · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author Mark Jones brilliantly writes a very compelling book from the perspective of a baby in a mother’s womb fighting for her life by writing her mother “letters” trying to convince her mom not to get an abortion. This not only is a page turner but will also make you sick to your very core that some people will kill their own child in a place as Mark Jones says “a place that should be the safest place in the world”. The womb has become a battle ground for helpless babies around the world, and we must stand up for their rights.
Although this book is a very sad book that brought me to tears many times it also shows the beautiful redemptive power of Christ, that no sin is greater than the power of our savours blood.

[Felipe Sabino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Segunda leitura, com o mesmo nó na garganta.

[Jacob London · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first book started and completed in 2020 lead me to stifling my cry many times. Jones writes from the perspective of an unborn child in utero who writes letters to her 25 year old mother. The unborn daughter, Zoe, writes about what could be if her mother chooses not to abort her. She writes about her name, about how she would take care of her mother in her old age, her love for her father, essentially her desire for life. Jones culminates this story with Zoe even sharing the Gospel with her mother and if she chooses to abort about the forgiveness offered for her in Christ.

It's a compelling story. Mark Jones is essentially pleading that those who are prochoice would reevaluate their decisions when considering the life in the womb as not a blob of cells, but as a person who will have dreams, a name, love, and life if the choice to abort is declined.

[Claudio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Que livro curto e bom. Um nó na garganta...

[Lisa London · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heartwrenching, but necessary to reflect upon.

[Eddie Mercado · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very short book, and quick to read through, but by no means is it easy. Written from the perspective of an infant in the womb, this is a unashamed and lucid plea for the choice of life. May it seem heavy handed at times? Yes, but it doesn’t mean the author doesn’t care about women in difficult circumstances. This book tries, however, to promote the idea that what happens inside of the womb of a pregnant woman is no small matter: it’s a divinely orchestrated creation of a human. A human like you and me.

[Elaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the words of unborn baby to her mother, pleading for life.

Thought provoking on the various arguments for being pro life, clearly presenting the gospel it would be a good resource for pro choice friends.

I really hope Christian focus publish this as a paperback as a resource for pro life groups.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Se está em dúvida sobre a leitura, a Introdução do livro mostra muito bem qual é o tom e o objetivo do mesmo. Leia-a e vai conseguir se decidir.

Esse é um livro lindo e pesado, que traz muitas reflexões sobre o nosso egoísmo, o nosso pecado e o quanto Deus é misericordioso. Além de tratar sobre um tema tão delicado de uma maneira sábia, bonita e honesta.

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

If your ears detect, from reading this book, even a whimper of the weightiness that is the gift of life, then it has not been lost on you.

Life is a gift. Big deal, whoop dee doo, yes, I understand my value, my worth, and my life. Hold on, though: the letters in this book are not referring to my life, as reader, being a gift. Instead, the premise is that I am the recipient of a gift, and the gift offered is the life of an unborn child.

Is this really a gift that I want to open? The answer may not be that easy, especially if the question is re-phrased as, Will I refuse to open a gift of life?

For those who face this question in the context of pregnancy, this book considers the ways in which life is a gift to be received. Mark Jones makes several appeals to the gift of life from the point of conception, using a mix of ordinary and extraordinary reason, sweetness, dry wit, lyric, and pluckiness. Controversial topics included must be read with care.

The fact that the voice of the narrator is an unborn child could well be a non-starter for those who do not recognize a fetus as a life or person. I wish this book would not be judged by that "cover".

I appreciated "If I could speak" for exploring many different ways to consider the giving/gift of life.

[Timothy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This short book is movingly written, if requires some imagination on the reader's part (but then, what good book doesn't?). It offers a Christian counsel through the voice of a girl in the womb to a mum who is considering an abortion. It also rightly does not assume or neglect the gospel of free grace. A helpful resource on this important matter.

[Bruno Melo · Rating 5 out of 5]

😥

[Daniel Walter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Um livro que toca nossos corações de uma maneira a repensar sobre como tratamos esse assunto!
Um livro que salva nossos corações, que salva os inocentes!

[Leila · Rating 5 out of 5]

powerful read. Spoken from the perspective of an unborn child in the womb of their mother! Beautiful graphics and prose!

[Charlene Veenendaal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great little book! Short and easy read but a thought provoking perspective.

[Gini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! The author gives a very personal perspective to the baby in the womb along with good information on the baby's development. I also appreciate the clear presentation of the gospel.
Have a supply of Kleenex handy when reading this book.