Category: Women’s Stories

Michelle Slaffey’s comment:

“Planned Parenthood is a big lie! What happened to me was not counseling, it was a plan to make money off my mother and myself by lying and tricking us at a very vulnerable time.”

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Karen Sullivan’s story…

“I could feel the baby being torn from my insides. It was really painful…Three-quarters of the way through the operation I sat up…In the cylinder I saw the bits and pieces of my little child floating in a pool of blood. I screamed and jumped off the table. They took me into another room and I started vomiting… I just couldn’t stop throwing up…

I had nightmares and recurring dreams about my baby, I couldn’t work my job. I just laid in bed and cried. Once, I wept so hard I sprained my ribs. Another time while crying, I was unable to breath- and I passed out. I was unable to walk on the beach because the playing children would make me cry. Even Pampers commercials would set me into fits of uncontrollable crying.”

From David Kuperlian and Jo Ann Gasper, “Abortion, Inc.” New Dimensions Oct 1991, 23

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“My husband gave me an ultimatum: go and get an abortion or he would leave. As the sole parents pension was an absolute pittance in those days I felt that I had no choice.… Inside myself I was thinking, “Oh please don’t let this happen; I want to keep this child; I think it will be a boy, a lovely little brother for my daughter.”

Zelda from Melbourne

Melinda Tankard Reist, Giving Sorrow Words (Sydney: Duffy & Snelgrove, 2000) 17

Quoted in E Joanne Angelo, M.D. “the Psychological Aftermath of Three Decades of Abortion”

Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004)

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“I felt like a piece of meat at a slaughterhouse. They had it arranged that it would be like an assembly line.”

A 43-year-old Catholic woman who had an abortion at age 16. She has only told her husband and her sister, no one else.

James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 64

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I was 20 years old, a junior in college. When I found out I was pregnant I went to the only school counselor at this small college. When I told her my situation, she almost immediately gave me literature on abortion clinics and was very encouraging toward abortion. I barely thought of other options. A girlfriend who was supportive through this was encouraging abortion as the best thing. The father didn’t consider anything else as I told him I was pregnant and needed an abortion. He paid for it but wasn’t present. We had just broken up before I found out that I was pregnant.
The clinic said it wouldn’t be painful — just like menstrual cramps. What a lie! I cried and almost screamed a few times, but they told me not to make noise because I would scare the others that were waiting. As soon as it was over, as I sat in the recovery room, I felt like I was dying — physically. That passed after awhile, but the next day, I felt like I was dying emotionally. I hated myself for what I had done, and felt such emptiness that I had never experienced before or since then.

I began to resent and almost hate the father. We had started dating again and it was never the same. I kept throwing it in his face and was actually trying to get him to feel bad about what we had done, but I don’t think he ever did. After on and off dating, I broke it off for good. Four days after the abortion, I got a headache that lasted all day, non-stop for about 2 months and then started letting up only occasionally throughout the day. My grades dropped drastically. I couldn’t concentrate at all anymore on studies or pay attention in class. My mind was never on any particular thought — I wasn’t concentrating on anything. My friendship with my supportive girlfriend fell apart, too. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, I didn’t want to be around her or even look at her, for she reminded me of what I had done, and I resented her. These thoughts weren’t conscious at the time, I just felt uncomfortable around her and didn’t know why.

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“I was unmarried. I had just joined the Navy and I felt no other “choice”. I went to a clinic and it was performed.
[The abortion was] very violent! Painful both physically and mentally. The worst experience of my life! I bled for 6 weeks after. They discovered half of the fetus left in me! Caused terrible infection, I almost died!!

For weeks I was so depressed I almost took my own life, I felt so guilty of what I’d done. No one else really knew or cared.

For years (I had [the abortion] ten years ago) I lived in a state of guilt until I became a Christian and confessed it to God. He helped me to heal. I then got involved in Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and the Pro-Life Movement. Helping others has helped me.

How has the abortion affected me? Well, where do I start? I had a crash course in adulthood. I did a lot of growing up. I came to realize how one decision can affect you for the rest of your life!

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“I got pregnant just out of high school and my parents and the father’s parents were too ashamed to own up, so my mother told me if I didn’t have an abortion she wouldn’t talk to me — so I had an abortion.

It was very traumatic and clinical. All they were interested in is the money! (It was) very scary and I felt wrong and I knew I shouldn’t, but I felt forced into it.

Well, my boyfriend wouldn’t talk to me and my mom was angry and when she caught me crying myself to sleep she told me she’d ground me if she caught me crying again…

I’m still not fully recovered and it was 2 years ago.

I have learned to appreciate life and the gift the Lord gave us and the pain and agony you get when you snuff out one of those lives! I have learned to love all people, especially children! I will carry that sadness the rest of my life.”

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“When I told my mom I was pregnant she immediately made the appointment. I kept hanging the phone up on her and she kept redialing. Finally she got through. When the next morning came I crept down stairs got into my car and sped away – she quickly followed and finally caught up with me. After a fight she convinced me to just go down to have another test done to confirm it. Somehow I later found myself recovering from the abortion wondering, What now? The abortion was performed by a private doctor who happened to be a long time friend of my parents and our next door neighbor.

[I felt] sad, trapped, no way out, confused, angry, in shock, scared.

It was the family secret. I dove heavily into drugs and sex. Constantly having pregnancy tests for fear of being pregnant. I felt scarred and blackened with dirt.

At first, I denied it [the abortion], suppressed it and tried to escape from it. Finally, God called me back to him after years of being and living in disobedience and brought New Hope Pregnancy Aid Center into my life where I had one-on-one as well as group counseling with the book PACE.

I am actually opposed to abortion now and never take a wishy-washy stand. I had a friend who was considering having a second abortion and I was able to talk to her and we both relived the abortion experience and then she realized she could not go through that again and now she has a beautiful one-year-old baby boy. I also (when I’m married) would like to be a shepherding home for unwed pregnant girls. I have also spoken at the New Hope
Pregnancy Aid Center dinner and gave my abortion experience testimony to 450 people including a congressman and I was able to let those present know that help is available before abortion as well as after.”

 

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“I was 17 and scared. I went to Planned Parenthood, thinking they would help me plan to be a parent. However, they just gave me a list of doctors who performed abortions, and sent me on my way.

Most of it is a blur. I remember going from room to room with a group of about 10 women. We were talked to about contraception and whatever was said about the abortion, I can’t really remember. I got there about 1 and left around 6 or 7:00 PM. I remember holding the nurses hand so tight during the abortion. I was afraid it might break. It was painful.

I was relieved at first, then I started drinking alcohol more and more often. I was wanting to get pregnant again (unconsciously). I wouldn’t talk about the abortion. About a year later, I wanted to commit suicide. To this day, my parents don’t know.

In college I took a stress class. This class was worth my whole college career. It was my last semester in college. There were 7 people in my class, and we each had to talk about our past, present, and future. When I talked about the abortion, it was the first time I cried about it (7 years later). I came to regret it and accept Jesus’ forgiveness and healing.

I will never see or hold my baby/child (at least not on Earth). It was traumatic — I hated myself and didn’t want to live. It negatively affected my relationships with children and men. I became very hard of heart, not helping other people. Until Jesus came into my life, I had a hard time accepting love.”

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