The couple knew that all Tasha needed to do to get back into the hurdling business quickly was to visit the local abortion provider. After all, “it wasn’t the right time” for a baby—not convenient. The Olympics are coming, and they didn’t have the financial security for a baby either. With so much riding on this summer’s Olympic competition, the idea was tempting.

But Tasha recalls, “ . . . this line from the Scriptures kept coming into my head: ‘For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ For me, the whole world was the Olympics. At the same time, I felt I would be losing my soul.”