One woman who had an abortion recounts the following story:
“My boyfriend told me if I kept it, it would break us apart. I loved him and I went and destroyed the life which I wanted so much. I was 18 weeks pregnant, it took me three days for the operation. Men don’t understand what you go through and I wish they did. Throughout the three days I had needles all the time and nausea. This was because of love. I always think of other people before my own feelings, but look where it’s gotten me… I felt empty, like I had no soul in me… My boyfriend said to me a couple of days afterwards that we might end up being married and we could have a family together. I said I couldn’t marry someone that made me destroy a baby.”
Melinda Tankard Reist, Giving Sorrow Words (Sydney: Duffy & Snelgrove, 2000) 21
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