Month: September 2012

After Abortion Woman Has Multiple Complicated Pregnancies

If only if I had seen this horrible pictures and watched the Silent Scream and the Hard Truth videos I would NOT have made that MISTAKE!!! Some people need facts and pictures. I did not know the medical procedure until years later. I was unaware of the risks that came after having an abortion. I thought like they tell you, it’s not considered a child until after 3 months!!! When I went to Planned Parenthood all they wanted was my money. No One ever counseled me or asked ARE YOU SURE??

Just to give you a background on my health. When I was 15 years old, I was date raped. I in turn became pregnant as a result of this rape. I denied being pregnant and brainwashed myself that I wasn’t. My older sister approached me and told me she would pay for an abortion, she too had one before. So being a young, immature teen I thought it was okay. But when she took me to the clinic I was six months pregnant! I was barely showing. They would not perform the abortion ..Thank GOD ! And God totally took a bad situation and turned it into a Blessing for a couple who were not able to have children.

Then when I was 19 years old and became pregnant by my then boyfriend of 23 years of age, he wanted it, I couldn’t see myself going through the whole pregnancy thing again. I was SELFISH. So yes I had an abortion.

In 1995 I became pregnant again and we wanted to keep our baby and were happy. I miscarried at 10 weeks. I did not have any pain or cramping, just little bleeding. I had to have the D&C performed on my birthday.

In 1997 I became pregnant again, miscarried again, same story…. I told the nurse that I had a baby when I was 15 years old, natural childbirth…labor was two hours! The nurse said since I had carried a child to term before and had a healthy pregnancy then it was probably due to the abortion and D&Cs from the miscarriages, which can leave uterine scarring and also may result in INCOMPETENT CERVIX which only results in MORE problems.

A month later I became pregnant again…everything was ok…although I had spotting and minor cramping during the first and second trimesters. By the time I was 4 months pregnant I was told I had COMPLETE PLACENTA PREVIA. I already have Chronic Asthma and now this!!!

My activities were very limited, no sex for the remainder of the pregnancy, no vacuuming, etc…
Thank GOD, the placenta did move towards the end of my pregnancy. however, my water bag broke 6 weeks early. And I had to be induced because I was running a fever. My son came out at 6 lbs. and was breathing irregular and had to be rushed to NICU. Because of the Grace of God my baby was FINE !!! His learning development was a little slow the first 18 months of his life, but now he is up to where he should be and beyond!

I read some other sections of your site and came across the risks of abortion…higher miscarriage rate and early labor. These both happened to me. My OB/GYN said if I ever wanted to have more children I would most likely have the same condition of placenta previa. Currently I do not want anymore children. I am a single mom and have been abstinent for over two years now.

Adoption is wonderful but it is VERY HARD DECISION to make. In my situation it was easier for me because I was raped. Children DO need both parents in their life, however; just because a child does not have both parents does NOT mean that that parent cannot be a loving parent. The majority of people I know today are from single parent family homes. I no longer believe in abortion. I do believe in Adoption; however I think it is NOT nice to pressure someone into adoption, just because they are a single mom and they say it’s hard. I read Amanda’s letter I was touched by it. YES she’s a young single mom. SO WHAT! She loves her child. Yes it’s hard being a single mom..it’s hard being a PARENT PERIOD! I don’t know…I just don’t appreciate it when other people “down” single parents I am a borne-again Christian and I know that pre-martial sex is a sin. We all sin everyday, however; that does not mean that we being single have to give up our children to a married couple. Maybe the relationship we were in was Illegitimate but the child is not. God entrusted US single moms to have HIS children. They’re not ours, He’s only lent them to us for a short while. Many women choose abortion because they don’t want to have the baby alone. We made the choice to have our children regardless if we were going to be with their father or not. Anyway, I agree with that writer on Adoption, however; I felt that there was pressure being placed on Amanda and I did not appreciate it. Hugs to Amanda and a BIG PAT on the back for taking on
the most important job in the world …BEING A MOMMY!!!!

AND BIG HUGS TO ALL MOTHERS WHO DECIDED TO KEEP THEIR BABIES!!!!

 

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15 Year Old Affected By Aborted Fetus In Hospital Lab

Sharon P. worked in a pathology lab that examined the remains of aborted babies. She writes:

My exposure to abortion came when I was 15 years old. I had taken my first job in the histology lab at a hospital in San Diego. (This lab is where anything removed from the human body is examined by a pathologist.) When I walked into the lab that first day, I saw a jar with a baby in it. When I asked why it was there, the doctor told me it was an anencephalic baby that had been aborted, and since it was so unusual, they had decided to keep it. Even at that tender age, I felt that something was wrong with that – this wasn’t a frog or “specimen” – it was a baby.

It wasn’t long before I, too, learned to think of her as a “specimen.” It was the only way I could deal with my job, which included doing the “gross examination” of all the abortions that had been done on the days I worked. I was trained to identify fetal parts and placental tissue, and to determine the sex of those babies that were aborted by saline/prostaglandin injection. Very quickly I became numb to what I was doing and, while I was definitely against abortion, I was in total denial about my own feelings about the job – until I got married, and was desperate to have a baby of my own.

After 18 months of trying to get pregnant, and being subjected to infertility testing, my husband and I were finally told that we would never be able to conceive. During that time, all the feelings I’d been repressing/suppressing for six years began to come to the surface. I became very depressed, and eventually suicidal. My husband didn’t understand what I was feeling, and refused to let me quit my job. (At the time I was very angry with him, but I realize now that we were both too young and immature to handle what was happening.) Finally, in December of 1979, I admitted myself to a mental health unit of a local hospital. I was really afraid that I would hurt myself if something didn’t change.

Unfortunately, my husband still didn’t “get it,” and the staff at the hospital was very uncomfortable with why I thought I was there. I was told that it was “too upsetting to the other patients,” so I shouldn’t share what I had gone through, or how I was feeling. During my three-month stay they convinced me that my depression was really caused by my “rigid religious beliefs, a bad marriage, and a controlling family.” So – I divorced my husband, walked away from God, walked away from my family, and walked into the world, where I stayed for almost two years. I was still very depressed, and dependent on antidepressants and Valium to cope. I felt lost and alone – and crazy.

Fortunately, God never left me alone, and when I reached another “low,” I gave my life back into His care, and with His help and the help of a wonderful, compassionate church, was able to put my life back together. I put my experiences with abortion behind me, and “went on with my life.” Yet, as hard as I tried to forget it, the abortion issue haunted me.

Then, in 1983, I decided to attend a nine-month Bible school offered by my church. One of the requirements was that each student had to be involved in a ministry every week. I didn’t know what to do, so I offered to help one of the pastors on staff with whatever he needed. After a few months he offered me a ministry opportunity. The church had been approached by a crisis pregnancy center that was looking for a liaison from our church. Because of my background, he immediately thought of me. You can imagine what I thought – “You’ve got to be kidding!” He was very surprised at my response, and simply asked me to pray about it. While I agreed to pray, I silently told myself – and God – that this was not what He would want me to do!

I continued to resist even the possibility of being involved in this ministry, until the Lord spoke loudly and clearly through His Word. I had been reading through the book of Isaiah as part of my studies, and when I came to chapter 54, I felt God had written it to me: “Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud; you who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman, says the Lord.” When I finished reading that chapter, I knew what God had called me to do.

Within six months, I was in full-time ministry as the Director of Silent Voices – not the CBC down the street, but an outreach of the church I was attending. I was still in a lot of emotional pain, but over several years, God graciously healed those hurts. As I began to read about Post Abortion Syndrome, I understood what had happened to me – I wasn’t crazy after all! The job had been crazy!

Since then, I have been blessed to be in the service of our Lord, and to see Him fulfill all the promises He made to me in Isaiah 54! While I have never remarried or had children of my own, there are hundreds of children alive who would have been aborted had Silent Voices not been there when their mothers needed help and hope.

Sharon P.

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Teenager Coerced Into Multiple Abortions

“After loving my children I can’t believe what I have done and I often find myself in depression with no one to turn to….”

HI, I had an abortion when I was about 16 years old. I am now 26. My mother found out I was pregnant and made me have an abortion. I didn’t know what to do. I woke up each morning thinking I was in a bad dream. I was so young I didn’t even know what was going on or what my opinion should even be on abortion. I was forced to have one because it would ruin my life and embarrass
the family.

I got pregnant again at the age of 19 and my parents didn’t know so I had another abortion. I was kind of made to think it was a way of life. A woman waiting to get an abortion with me asked me why I was getting one, because I was plenty old enough to have one. I didn’t even let her words faze me. She had three children already and now I wonder why she was there, too.

At the age of 23 I had got pregnant again. I decided to have my baby. I never would regret my decision on giving her life. I do how ever regret not giving my two unborn children a chance. I was young and naive. I have recently had my fourth pregnancy. I give my abortions allot of thought. My mother was not happy for me when I announced I was having a baby, either time. Although, she is thrilled to death that they are here. I feel she made me to think that being pregnant is not a good thing. Like it’s some evil state to be in. After loving my children I can’t believe what I have done and I often find myself in depression with no one to turn to. My husband today is the same person I have been with through all my pregnancies. He tries to make me see that It was okay. That I did what I had to do. I don’t know if he tells me this to prevent me from further going into insanity. They were also a part of him. I will never support abortion. I was pro- choice but I have learned that pro-life is the right and only choice. When your young and don’t want to be pregnant you don’t think of that little being in the same way as when you do when you grow older. If my girls get pregnant young, I hope I have the strength to stand by a decision we can all live
with.

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Woman Wishes She Had Seen Images Prior To Her Abortion

“I’m only writing because I wish I had saw (sic) those pictures before I aborted my child.”

I thought I was doing the right thing and had all of the correct information I was so wrong. I saw pamphlets on how abortion is safe and where you can go get one but never any pamphlets with information like this. Now today I sit here and wonder was it a boy or was it a girl? Was he or she gonna have blue eyes or green eyes? Was he or she gonna have blonde hair or brown hair. Anyway that is all I can do is sit here and wonder because 3 years ago I was selfish and only thought of myself not the child that was growing inside me God only knows the answer to those questions I sure don’t because I was to selfish to give my child the right to live I had the right to choose but did my child? NO!!! I took that from him or her! How I only wish I had all the information or saw that video three years ago! I can only hope and pray that someday God will forgive me and I also pray for that little life that I killed!

C E

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Pro-Lifer Arrested for Transporting “Human Remains”

In his book about abortion, Randy Alcorn tells the following story:

“A pro-life speaker was detained by police for carrying with him the preserved body of an aborted baby. He was told it was illegal to transport human remains across state lines without special permission. When he realized that this meant the state would have to argue in court that the bodies of aborted babies are in fact human remains, he welcomed prosecution! The state dropped the charges. Though they knew these were human remains, how could a state the defends and funds abortions publicly admit – much less attempt to prove – that abortion kills human beings?”

Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 97

10-week-old baby (from a miscarriage)
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NARAL Pro-Choice America Gets It Wrong about Abortion

Shortly after Roe versus Wade, the director of NARAL, an organization which was pivotal in legalizing abortion, said the following:

“Before you know it this will be past history and abortion will just be another medical procedure. People will forget about the whole thing.”

Obviously, NARAL underestimated the strength and conviction of the pro-life movement.

Rubin, Eva R., editor “The Abortion Controversy: a Documentary History” (Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994) 147, Quoted by Karen O’Connor in “No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes (Boulder Colorado: Westview Press, 1996) 63

first trimester ultrasound
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Hitler on Abortion

Was Hitler pro-choice? Pro-abortion groups have often said that Hitler opposed abortion, because he encouraged Aryan women to have as many children as possible and forbade abortion for most Germans. However, Hitler was aware that legalized abortion was an excellent tool for weeding out undesirable races. According to a private conversation, Hitler said:

“If any such idiot tried to put into practice such an order [forbidding abortion] in the occupied Eastern territories, he would personally shoot him. In view of the large families of the native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. Active trade in contraceptives ought to be actually encouraged in the Eastern territories, as we could not possibly have the slightest interest in increasing the non-German population.”

Quoted from a table conversation with Hitler on 22 July 1942

Clarissa Henry and Marc Hillel. Of Pure Blood, translator Eric Mossbacher (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976) 148. Quoted by James Tunstead Burtechaell

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Pro-Choice Author Cites Relationship with Partner as the Most Important Factor In a Women’s Abortions

Pro-choice author Linda Bird Francke interviewed a large number of postabortion women and couples said came to the following conclusion:

“The most critical factor in the decision to abort… is the relationship with a male partner.”

Linda bird Francke, The Ambivalence of Abortion (New York: Random House, 1978) 47 Quoted in James Tunstead Burtechaell, C.S.C. Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982)

for more information on coerced abortions, go here.

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Pro-Choice Author Admits That Men Coerce Women into Unwanted Abortions

“That men have long coerced women into unwanted abortion when it suits their purposes is well known but rarely mentioned. Data reported by the Alan Guttmacher Institute indicate that some 30% of women have an abortion because someone else, not the woman, wants it.”

Prominent abortion defender Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center

Daniel Callahan “An Ethical Challenge to Pro-Choice Advocates” Commonweal November 23, 1990 684 quoted in David 16, C Reardon “Making Abortion Rare: a Healing Strategy for a Divided Nation” (Springfield, Illinois: Acorn Books)

For more information about coerced abortions, go here.

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Director of Medical Genetics On the Term “Fetus”

“I have been practicing medicine for nearly 50 years and have delivered babies on three continents, and never once has a woman said to me “Doctor, how is my fetus doing?”

Dr. Hymie Goldberg (Deceased), Director of The Department of Medical Genetics at the Mayo Clinic for 2 decades and later chairman of the Human Rights and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, on why he avoids use of the word “fetus.”

Phil Greenberg “To Life: A Collection of Editorials & Columns on Abortion, Life, and Choice” (Little Rock, Arkansas: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 1999) p 82

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