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Katie Zacharia, who was appointed as the new White House press secretary by President Trump last week, shared in 2025 that she came very close to being aborted before her birth mother ultimately chose adoption instead.
Katie Zacharia was announced as the new White House press secretary last week.
She is a pro-life advocate who shared in 2025 that she was almost aborted.
She says her mother was scheduled for an abortion, but changed her mind thanks to a 'miracle' phone call as she headed out the door to her appointment.
Rather than abort Zacharia, her mother placed her for adoption at birth.
Zacharia is married with four children.
Zacharia, a mother of four, is a pro-life advocate who told "We The People with Gates Garcia" in 2025 that the circumstances of her birth are what led to her pro-life convictions.
She told Garcia, "... [T]he reason, Gates, that I am pro-life is because I was approximately 20, 30 minutes away from being aborted. I learned this when I met my biological mother when I was 18. I was then adopted as a newborn and the story really is one of a miracle."
She added:
"The story was, she had gotten a phone call. She has an appointment at, you know, 10 a.m. ... Her aunt is pulled up ready to take her to get an abortion and she's a 19-year-old single woman who had, you know, kind of been a groupie for Motley Crew, grew up with a pretty rough background of sexual abuse and is pregnant now with this baby and doesn't know what to do. And the first phone call she gets as she's leaving is from my biological father who's like, 'Get an abortion. I'll do whatever it takes.' ... Then the next moment, she's almost out the door, the phone rings again..."
This time, it was a Christian counselor calling her birth mother, Ruth, to encourage her to "consider an open adoption rather than an abortion, so you have an opportunity to know who this chidl could be and give this child an opportunity to live,"said Zacharia.
It was at that moment because of that phone call, Zacharia said, that Ruth decided not to go through with the abortion that would have claimed her baby's life. She went and told her aunt that she wasn't going through with it, and her family was reportedly angry that she didn't have the abortion. But Ruth gave birth and placed her baby girl with an adoptive family.
When Zacharia turned 18, she met Ruth and learned that she was nearly aborted and that it was that one phone call that "saved my life."
Zacharia went on to attend Pepperdine University law school, where she acted as the president of the university's Christian Legal Society chapter. She also went on to serve on the board of advisers for the White Rose Resistance group from November 2023 to February 2026, according to her LinkedIn profile.
In February, she became deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. After just one month, she resigned due to the strain the California to DC commute was causing her family. In June, she joined Trump Media & Technology Group/Truth Social as a senior communications adviser. Now she is serving as the White House press secretary.
She told Garcia in 2025 that it is a "blessing and gift" to be a part of the pro-life movement and help save the lives of preborn babies.
When women choose adoption over abortion, they get to pick the family that will raise their child. Children placed for adoption at birth do not enter foster care.
While open adoption was not common in the 1980s when Zacharia was born, it is happening with greater frequency today thanks to the understanding that children need to know where they come from and the knowledge that taking newborns from their biological mother can cause lasting trauma.
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·New White House press secretary says she was almost aborted
Katie Zacharia, who was appointed as the new White House press secretary by President Trump last week, shared in 2025 that she came very close to being aborted before her birth mother ultimately chose adoption instead.
Katie Zacharia was announced as the new White House press secretary last week.
She is a pro-life advocate who shared in 2025 that she was almost aborted.
She says her mother was scheduled for an abortion, but changed her mind thanks to a 'miracle' phone call as she headed out the door to her appointment.
Rather than abort Zacharia, her mother placed her for adoption at birth.
Zacharia is married with four children.
Zacharia, a mother of four, is a pro-life advocate who told "We The People with Gates Garcia" in 2025 that the circumstances of her birth are what led to her pro-life convictions.
She told Garcia, "... [T]he reason, Gates, that I am pro-life is because I was approximately 20, 30 minutes away from being aborted. I learned this when I met my biological mother when I was 18. I was then adopted as a newborn and the story really is one of a miracle."
She added:
"The story was, she had gotten a phone call. She has an appointment at, you know, 10 a.m. ... Her aunt is pulled up ready to take her to get an abortion and she's a 19-year-old single woman who had, you know, kind of been a groupie for Motley Crew, grew up with a pretty rough background of sexual abuse and is pregnant now with this baby and doesn't know what to do. And the first phone call she gets as she's leaving is from my biological father who's like, 'Get an abortion. I'll do whatever it takes.' ... Then the next moment, she's almost out the door, the phone rings again..."
This time, it was a Christian counselor calling her birth mother, Ruth, to encourage her to "consider an open adoption rather than an abortion, so you have an opportunity to know who this chidl could be and give this child an opportunity to live,"said Zacharia.
It was at that moment because of that phone call, Zacharia said, that Ruth decided not to go through with the abortion that would have claimed her baby's life. She went and told her aunt that she wasn't going through with it, and her family was reportedly angry that she didn't have the abortion. But Ruth gave birth and placed her baby girl with an adoptive family.
When Zacharia turned 18, she met Ruth and learned that she was nearly aborted and that it was that one phone call that "saved my life."
Zacharia went on to attend Pepperdine University law school, where she acted as the president of the university's Christian Legal Society chapter. She also went on to serve on the board of advisers for the White Rose Resistance group from November 2023 to February 2026, according to her LinkedIn profile.
In February, she became deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. After just one month, she resigned due to the strain the California to DC commute was causing her family. In June, she joined Trump Media & Technology Group/Truth Social as a senior communications adviser. Now she is serving as the White House press secretary.
She told Garcia in 2025 that it is a "blessing and gift" to be a part of the pro-life movement and help save the lives of preborn babies.
When women choose adoption over abortion, they get to pick the family that will raise their child. Children placed for adoption at birth do not enter foster care.
While open adoption was not common in the 1980s when Zacharia was born, it is happening with greater frequency today thanks to the understanding that children need to know where they come from and the knowledge that taking newborns from their biological mother can cause lasting trauma.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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