“The doctor took me into his office after the examination to give me the results of my pregnancy test. Actually I think I knew the results were positive and I was real shaky.
He explained the results were positive. Then he told me that from the examination I was ten to twelve weeks pregnant and asked what I wanted to do. I told him that I was afraid and didn’t want anyone to know about it. “You can come in and have an abortion tomorrow morning then,” he said.
The next morning, my boyfriend drove me down. The doctor was late because he was out delivering a baby. Up to that point I thought he was being helpful and really nice. When he came into the office, he started going on and on about the delivery, how wonderful it was, how big the baby was and everything. All the blood drained from my head.
I had to sign a release form that if anything happened to me, he was not responsible. When I signed it, he said to me, “I have to tell you what your options are. To have the baby and keep it or put it up for adoption. Or to have an abortion.” That was the extent of the counseling.
12-weeks
Then he went into the examining room and a nurse prepared me for my abortion. The whole thing felt like a dream. He performed the abortion and then when it was over, he lifted the sack in front of my face and asked if I wanted to see it. He said it was kind of hard to tell, but he thought it had been a boy. I started throwing up.”
Testimony from Christian Action Council
Quoted in: Curt Young The Least of These: What Everyone Should Know about Abortion (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1984) 60-61
