Family members gave her mother money to abort her, but her mother remained grounded in her faith and gave birth. Now 33, Carone Gordon is adding her voice to the controversial abortion debate through prayer.

Gordon, the founder and leader of the Call to the Kingdom Christian movement, along with two other members of the movement, will today host an all-day prayer session against the proposed abortion bill.

Medical doctors Doreen Brady-West and her husband Wayne West, who are also against abortion, will be at the prayer session.

The group of three has decided to stay in Mandela Park in Half-Way Tree for a week to counsel and minister to people.

Gordon told The Gleaner that her mother was only 16 years old when she got pregnant and her father's family encouraged her to have an abortion.

"They even gave her the money," she said.

Completely against abortion

Gordon, who has been married for 14 years to husband Carlos Gordon and has three children; Debra, 10; Gabrielle, eight; and Israel, six, said she is completely against abortion. Not only is it against her moral beliefs, but Gordon said one of the proposals in the bill, which would allow children under the age of consent to have an abortion, without their parents' knowledge, is completely disturbing.

"I have two daughters and would not want my children to do that," Gordon said.

"This would be teaching children to lie and be disrespectful to their parents," she added.

Gordon is adamant that socio-economic problems, which are regularly given as a reason for abortion, should never influence women to abort their children.

"Most children would not be born if every woman who got pregnant aborted their child because of economic reasons," Gordon said.