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‘The Holy Spirit Led Me’: Christian Singer Rhett Walker Opens Up About Choosing Life Over Abortion When His Now-Wife Became Pregnant at 17

November 29, 2021 by Staff

(Faithwire) “I only know the Holy Spirit led me to say those words to April, when I told her, ‘You’ve gotta trust me.’ Because I didn’t have a plan.”

It was the summer before his senior year of high school when Christian recording artist Rhett Walker found out his 17-year-old girlfriend was pregnant with their now-16-year-old daughter, Rileigh.

Abortion was on the table. In fact, Walker’s now-wife April had an appointment scheduled. But then God intervened through the moving of the Holy Spirit, and Walker told Faithwire he knew in that moment keeping their unborn child “was the only option.”

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