This week, celebrated writer and poet Maya Angelou passed away quietly at home on May 28 the age of 86.

Many years ago a story appeared in Family Circle magazine, where she told how she became pregnant at the age of 16 and decided to have her baby. “My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son,” Maya once told Oprah Winfrey. Read the story in her own words here.

Also:  Maya Angelou’s Place on the Pro-Life Left