Laura Lynn Hughes is a mother of five and grandmother of eight. She is a volunteer 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. She runs a photography studio, Images by Hughes, in northern California. The daughter Laura kept at fifteen is now an adult, wife and mother of four who serves her community as a school psychologist.