Teenager uses drugs and alcohol to “numb herself” after abortion

Machelle Montgomery had an abortion at age 15. She writes:

“I dealt with my abortion in very negative ways: more relationships, more drugs and alcohol. I was just trying to numb myself because every time I would allow myself to think about what I did I would become overwhelmed. I struggled with wanting to take my life. Depression set in and my world began to close in on me.”

Sally Thompson and LaQuita Maxey The Aftermath: Stories of God’s Grace and Freedom after Abortion (Storytellers, LLC, 2021) 85

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Mike Huckabee shares a picture of little Elisha, who was adopted as an embryo

In an introduction to a book about children adopted as frozen embryos, or “snowflake babies,” politician Mike Huckabee writes:

“… I met Maria Lancaster in 2007. I was running for president when she approached me on the campaign trail in Bellevue, Washington, and handed me a photograph of her daughter, Elisha.

Elisha came to her parents through embryo adoption. A surplus embryo from another couple’s fertility treatment, she was frozen for four years at just two cells. In 2003, she was taken out of the freezer and placed inside Maria’s womb. When Elisha was born, she was the 36th child in the world to be born in such a fashion…

I thanked Maria and tucked the snapshot she gave me in my wallet. I couldn’t quit thinking about this little girl who represented such a clear picture that life is valuable. Elisha lives a full life and is loved by her parents. And I couldn’t help but wonder, What would have happened if Jeff and Maria Lancaster had not considered and valued the fact that an embryo is a human life? She could have been a medical experiment or discarded as medical waste.

During ABC’s Nightline program later in the campaign, an interviewer asked me, “What do you have in your wallet?” I pulled out Elisha’s picture and briefly told the story.

I still carry her picture in my wallet today. I have kept it there for six years. When people ask me why I am pro-life, I open my wallet, bring out the photo and show them a living reason. I have to ask them, “Would you be willing to tell the mother of this child that her child wasn’t worth saving?”…

Elisha is a real person. She is not just tissue. She is not fodder for medical experimentation. She is a loving little girl with a powerful story. And she, and others like her, are worth saving.”

Mike Huckabee “Foreword” from Souls on Ice: True Miracle Stories of Embryo Adoption (Beaverton, Oregon: Good Catch Publishing, 2013) 21 – 22

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Pro-abortion philosopher admits that legalizing abortion led to lack of respect for other human lives

Philosopher Peter Singer, who supports both abortion and infanticide, wrote: him

“The prohibition on the direct killing of the fetus was the first area in which the sanctity of life ethic was directly challenged by the quality of life ethic, and lost.

Abortion foreshadowed what was about to become accepted practice in other areas, including the withdrawal of treatment from patients in a hopeless condition, and the selective nontreatment of disabled infants. While opponents of abortion have made this point repeatedly, those who support abortion prefer…to see the issue as one of freedom of choice.”

Peter Singer Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1994) 90

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Baptist pastor gives reasons for her pro-choice stand

Baptist pastor Lauren Jones Mayfield:

“…when I was invited to join Vice President Kamala Harris’ roundtable of patients and health care providers facing the impact of abortion restrictions in their states this month, I was grateful for the opportunity to represent the tens of thousands of clergy around the country who strongly support access to reproductive health care—including abortion access—as a moral issue and a calling supported by our faith’s first teaching to do no harm and love our neighbors.”

LAUREN JONES MAYFIELD “I Can’t Do My Job as a Pastor With Abortion Laws Like Texas’ S.B. 8 in Place” Time SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Is this love? Is this compatible with “do no harm?”

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Tennessee woman on her abortion: “It has completely messed up my life”

In an amicus brief before the Supreme Court, a woman from Tennessee was asked, “How has abortion affected you?”

She said:

“It has completely messed up my life. It was not the best way to start out in marriage. I was depressed, didn’t want my husband to touch me, felt guilty, had suicidal thoughts, cried a lot, terribly depressed!”

“Brief of Sandra Cano, the Former “Mary Doe” of Doe vs. Bolton, and 180 Women Injured by Abortion As Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner” Supreme Court of the United States, Gonzalez vs. Carhart, No. 05 – 380, Filed May 22, 2006

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Woman gives moving description of her miscarriages

In a book that collected essays about abortion, editor Phyllis Tickle describes her children:

“There are seven of them now, children of my body and fruit of our love, Sam’s and mine, for almost four decades of mated life.

But there are others as well, the children who haunt me and for whom, even in this time of my advancing age, I mourn and whose demise I have never accepted. They are the dead ones, the babies whom I miscarried, for I did miscarry. Over and over and over again I miscarried, until it seems that for every child we brought to term, three had been lost.

Most of them were lost to me in a flood of waste and blood when they were halfway toward safety. They were lost as children whose sex and shape I could plainly see as they floated away from me in the commode where I had to flush them or the old newspapers in which my hands had to wrap them, for in the 1960s and 70s they were children only to me.

To the world beyond my cramping heart they were a medical accident of routine occurrence, part of the byproduct of active living. The church said no words over them and perceived no loss from their namelessness; medicine reduced them to statistics in the record of my parity.

But I could never so reduce the memories of the swirling waters carrying my children away to sewage plants, nor could the shadows of their presence ever be exorcised from the dining tables of Christmases and Thanksgivings, of birthdays and anniversaries.”

Phyllis Tickle, ed. Confessing Conscience: Churched Women on Abortion (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1990) 10 – 11

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Drug user has abortion after doctor lies to her about preborn baby

Shawna Arnold had an abusive, drug-addicted mother, and became a drug user at a young age.

When she got pregnant at 19, her mother urged her to have an abortion. She wrote:

“I was so messed up at the time that I believed the people who said there was no way I could take care of a baby.

The doctor told me the baby was the size of a pen dot, had no heartbeat and wasn’t even recognizable as a person. With my appointment to have the abortion in Saskatoon, I left the clinic. I kept drinking and I even did some drugs, despite knowing I was pregnant…

I had nowhere to turn. I was completely lost and frightened.

I had no strength inside me to quit my addictions, and I chose them over my baby’s life. I was on mushrooms when I was pregnant and had thoughts that I had Satan in my stomach – that my baby was evil. I was a serious mess and needed help, some kind of treatment. I didn’t even know who was the father of the baby I was carrying.”

Shawna Arnold A New Heart: My Story of Abortion, Addiction & Conversion (Galston, New South Wales, Australia: Parousia Media Pty Ltd, 2021) 31, 32

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Pro-Choice leader says abortion prevents “infant mortality”

In a very ironic comment, Terry O’Neill, president of pro-choice group NOW, said:

“From a public health point of view, abortion care, no less than contraception, is an essential measure to prevent the heartbreak of infant mortality….”

Terry O’Neill “Abortion, Like Contraception, Is Essential Health Care That Saves Lives” NOW May 13, 2014

This was originally published in the Huffington Post.

Below: Potential victim of an abortion.

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Psychotherapist with 20 years experience describes post-abortion trauma

Mira Dana, a psychotherapist at the Women’s Therapy Centre in London, who has spent 20 years working with post-abortive women, says:

“There are three general reactions women display after an abortion and on coming home from the hospital.

(1) Euphoria…an expression of the feeling of relief and freedom at having solved a problem, having got rid of a burden, and having executed a decisive action. They will feel strong and powerful and in control of their lives. They will feel the need to laugh and have a good time… [and] keep excessively busy…

Feelings of loss, anger [and] guilt are of no relevance for them at this period… These emotions are bound to come later, sometimes even months or years later, sometimes in a disguised form, apparently with no connection to having had an abortion…

(2) Detachment – Some women will experience a sense of “shock”…numbness inside. They will go on doing ordinary activities they are used to doing, but with a sense of detachment, distance…unreality.

This detachment is an attempt to avoid experiencing the painful feelings connected to the termination… She may feel an inner emptiness…

(3) Depression – Some women get into a state of depression which could be described as a general sense of hopelessness and diffused (unfocused) feeling of blackness…feeling bad about yourself and your life and your environment, but without actually knowing what it is – a state of no specific emotion but this “darkness”… Feelings of worthlessness…and that nothing is of much importance…

Fear of Sexuality… Many women need time after an abortion before they feel relaxed and able to have sexual relationships again because they fear another abortion…

Ambivalence – not only about having a baby. There are many issues in a woman’s life about which she may be equally confused but which get “hooked” on the one issue of having a baby…

Envy – Often women feel envious of other women who have babies after the termination… Some women will refrain from visiting their friends who have newborn babies as they feel it is too painful to be with them.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) 15 – 16

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American College of Pediatricians says life begins at conception

In the official policy statement from the American College of Pediatricians in 2004, the statement says that the organization:

“concurs with the body of scientific evidence that human life begins at conception – fertilization… Scientific and medical discoveries over the past three decades [since Roe vs. Wade] have only verified and solidified this age-old truth.”

Quoted in Fred de Miranda, MD, FCP, “Position Statements: When Human Life Begins” American College of Pediatricians, March 17, 2004

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