"The Blood of My Daughter Is on Your Hands" Mother Tells Abortionist: Mother Turns Grief into Passion for Life.(Eileen Smith )

Eileen Smith never expected her life to turn out this way.

Always "quietly pro-life," she never expected to find herself standing shoulder to shoulder with vocally active pro-lifers, exposing the raw nerve of her family's deepest heartbreak to total strangers from across the country and around the world.

But then, she never expected to lose one of her own grandchildren to abortion.

And she certainly never expected that her beloved daughter, 22-year-old Laura Hope Smith, would die September 13, 2007, on an abortionist's table.

"I was always 'quietly pro-life,'" said Mrs. Smith, who did not know Laura was pregnant until after her daughter's death. She taught her children that abortion was wrong, but at the same time, "I thought abortion was here to staythat change couldn't happen," she said.

Pro-lifers who actively worked to change the laws were, she believed, "spitting into the wind," she told NRL News. "Now, my passion is to speak out against abortion."

When abortion claimed the lives of both her unborn grandchild and her daughter, Mrs. Smith said, she and her husband Tom experienced a "baptism of fire" into the pro-life movement. She vowed that she would tell Laura's story in the hope that at least one woman would choose life after hearing it.