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His Mother Almost Had an Abortion
According to an interview he did with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Houghton’s mother, Margaret, was encouraged to have an abortion by her parents.
“They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at the time in 1971 was a very segregated society,” he said. “She came home and told her parents, ‘I’m pregnant and the father is black.’ They had a really difficult time with it.”
He continued, “The suggestion was, ‘Have an abortion. Move on with your life.’ She was a terrific concert pianist, she had everything ahead of her, and in a lot of ways had every reason to go, ‘Let’s just chalk this up as a mistake and move on.’ She said, ‘No, no, I’m going to keep this baby.’ She ended up kind of getting shunned for a good chunk of her life after that and didn’t have a lot of contact with her parents.”
