From a woman who had two abortions, one after rape:
“Had I been told the truth about the risks that I was taking with my body and about the developing persons inside of me, I know that I would not have made the decision to destroy life. There are those people who can deliberately take the life of another person, but that is not my nature. Yet I must live with the truth, because that is what I have done.
I still feel that I probably couldn’t have loved that child conceived of rape, but there are so many people who would have loved that baby dearly. The man who raped me took a few moments of my life, but I took that innocent baby’s entire life. That is not justice, as I see it.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 212
