Draft:Tori Shaw
{{Short description|Pro-Life Activist and Public Speaker}}
{{Draft topics|women|media}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Tori Shaw
| image = Tori Shaw Portrait.png
| birth_name = Tori Allison Jones
| birth_date = 6 September 1982 (42)
| birth_place = Lexington, North Carolina, USA
| occupation = Teacher
| years_active = 2019-Present
| organization = Not Forgotten Ministries
| known_for = Pro-Life Activism
| spouse = Bryan Shaw (2004-Present)
| children = 4
| website = https://torishaw.com
}}
Tori Shaw (Born Tori Allison Jones 6 September 1982) is a Pro-Life Activist, Public Speaker, former Public School Teacher, and Journalist. She has written three books{{Cite web |title=Tori Shaw, Author {{!}} Books {{!}} Series {{!}} Interview {{!}} Deals {{!}} Newsletter {{!}} Contact {{!}} Site |url=https://allauthor.com/author/torishaw/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=AllAuthor}}, is the Director of Not Forgotten Ministries, and has quickly become one of the most prevalent leaders of the Pro-Life movement.{{Cite web |last=Bureau |first=Pro-Life Speakers |title=Pro-Life Speakers Bureau |url=https://prolifespeakersbureau.com/tori-shaw |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Pro-Life Speakers Bureau |language=en-US}}{{Citation |title='Not Forgotten Ministries' with Tori Shaw |url=https://soundcloud.com/user-160165404/not-forgotten-ministries-tori-shaw-jan-2021-pod |access-date=2025-04-08 |language=en}}Pro-life movement in the United States
She is notable for leading with compassion rather than hate, which as she writes in her third book, has become an increasing problem on both sides of the Abortion Debate.
Biography
Tori Allison Jones was born September 6th, 1982, in the town of Lexington, North Carolina, to Terry and Teresa Jones. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother married another man. Tori went to public school and later fell in love with her neighbor, a young man named Bryan Shaw. In 1999, Tori became pregnant. Less than 24 hours after finding out, she had an abortion.{{Cite web |date=2022-10-18 |title=A Response to the Movie Lifemark by Someone Who Chose Abortion Instead of Adoption |url=https://kingdomwinds.com/a-response-to-the-movie-lifemark-by-someone-who-chose-abortion-instead-of-adoption/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=kingdomwinds.com |language=en-US}} She experienced such great shame and trauma{{Cite web |title=Study can't find women traumatized by abortion but ministry knows otherwise |url=https://afn.net/pro-life/2024/05/21/study-cant-find-women-traumatized-by-abortion-but-ministry-knows-otherwise/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=AFN |language=en}} that she kept her abortion secret for the next 17 years of her life.{{Cite book |last=Shaw |first=Tori |title=I Had a Secret for Seventeen Years |date=June 22, 2020 |publisher=Resource Publications |year=2020 |isbn=9781725271401}}{{Cite web |last=Shaw |first=Tori |date=2022-09-13 |title=New 'Lifemark' movie showed me my aborted child could have blessed others' lives |url=https://www.liveaction.org/news/lifemark-movie-aborted-child-blessed-others-adoption/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=Live Action News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fiore |first=Bettina di |date=2021-01-15 |title=One chose abortion and the other chose adoption. Today, these women bring hope and healing to others. |url=https://www.liveaction.org/news/woman-chose-abortion-open-adoption-hope-healing/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=Live Action News |language=en-US}}
Tori and Bryan would later get married and have 4 children. She became a public school teacher before she was pushed onto the floor by a mentally ill student and suffered a spinal fracture. She healed from the spinal fracture but the trauma caused a gene to active, giving her the genetic form of Ankylosing Spondylitis.{{Cite web |title=Tori Shaw Ankylosing Spondalitis Facebook Post |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/AuthorToriShaw/posts/1079277120870196/}} She quit teaching and became a stay-at-home mom. Tori eventually revealed her story in 2016, and in 2019, she founded Not Forgotten Ministries.{{Cite web |last=Journal-Advocate |first=Patt Covert {{!}} Special to the |date=2025-02-14 |title=Annual banquet weekend raises $125K for pregnancy center |url=https://www.journal-advocate.com/2025/02/14/annual-banquet-weekend-raises-125k-for-pregnancy-center/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=Sterling Journal-Advocate |language=en-US}} Not Forgotten Ministries, while originally a sidewalk outreach program, now focuses entirely on running Bible Studies and Retreats for Post-Abortive Women.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-09 |title=Not Forgotten Ministries - WBFJ.fm |url=https://wbfj.fm/not-forgotten-ministries/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=wbfj.fm |language=en-US}} To date, Not Forgotten Ministries has reached over 40 states and over 15 countries.{{Cite web |title=Not Forgotten Ministries {{!}} Find healing after abortion |url=https://theyarenotforgotten.com/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |language=en-US}} Shaw often speaks at Pro-Life Events{{Cite web |last=Herald |first=The Haxtun-Fleming |title=Annual banquets to be held |url=https://www.hfherald.com/story/2025/01/23/local/annual-banquets-to-be-held/3838.html |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=The Haxtun-Fleming Herald |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sanctity of Life - ACLA |url=https://www.aclaministry.org/sanctity-of-life |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=www.aclaministry.org}} and Conferences,{{Cite news |title=Tori Shaw {{!}} Ambassador Speakers, Inc. |url=https://www.ambassadorspeakers.com/speakers/unique/tori-shaw |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241104113058/https://www.ambassadorspeakers.com/speakers/unique/tori-shaw |archive-date=2024-11-04 |access-date=2025-04-08 |work=Ambassador Speakers, Inc.}} and acts as a Freelance Writer for Live-Action News.{{Cite web |title=Live Action {{!}} Pro-Life Advocacy for Dignity and Human Rights |url=https://www.liveaction.org/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Tori Shaw, Author at Live Action News |url=https://www.liveaction.org/news/author/tori-shaw/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=Live Action News |language=en-US}}She has also been featured in the news and often speaks at fundraisers for other Pro-Life Ministries.{{Cite web |last=Journal-Advocate |first=Patt Covert {{!}} Special to the |date=2025-02-14 |title=Annual banquet weekend raises $125K for pregnancy center |url=https://www.fortmorgantimes.com/2025/02/14/annual-banquet-weekend-raises-125k-for-pregnancy-center/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=The Fort Morgan Times |language=en-US}}
Shaw has written 3 books to date, her first released in 2020 and her most recent published in 2022.{{Cite news |title=Tori Shaw {{!}} Ambassador Speakers, Inc. |url=https://www.ambassadorspeakers.com/speakers/unique/tori-shaw |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241104113058/https://www.ambassadorspeakers.com/speakers/unique/tori-shaw |archive-date=2024-11-04 |access-date=2025-04-08 |work=Ambassador Speakers, Inc.}} Her first book, I Had a Secret for Seventeen Years, is her autobiography and details her life up until the point the book was written.{{Cite book |last=Shaw |first=Tori |url=https://www.perlego.com/book/1707229/i-had-a-secret-for-seventeen-years-a-story-of-redemption-and-healing-after-abortion-pdf?campaignid=436439430&adgroupid=1353500607580773&msclkid=ec2a2ad2840413df68f74d21653dc7ea |title=I Had A Secret For Seventeen Years: A Story of Redemption and Healing after Abortion |date=2020-07-15 |publisher=Resource Publications |isbn=978-1-7252-7141-8 |language=English}}{{Cite web |title=Interview with Author Tori Shaw – Ramona Portelli Blog |url=https://ramonaportelli.com/2020/10/interview-with-author-tori-shaw/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |language=en-GB}} Her second book, Free Indeed, is a bible study for Post-Abortive Women to help them find healing. Her third book, Lead With Love, is aimed primarily at the Pro-Life Movement and attempts to limit violence and hate on the Anti-Abortion side of the Abortion debate.{{Cite web |title=Lead With Love |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lead-with-love-tori-shaw/1141364030?ean=9781666707854}}
Shaw currently lives in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband and their 4 children, who she homeschools.{{Cite web |title=Tori Shaw - Public Speaking & Appearances - Speakerpedia, Discover & Follow a World of Compelling Voices |url=https://speakerpedia.com/speakers/tori-shaw |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=speakerpedia.com}}
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