Pastor mourns lost child, aborted 22 years ago

Pastor Shane Idleman describes losing a child to abortion:

“Approximately 22 years ago, as a prodigal, I conceded to my girlfriend’s request to abort our child around the 5th week. The pain of that decision still haunts me today.

What would my child look like? Was it a boy or a girl? I can picture walking and talking with my child…watching his or her first steps…holding them when they cry and rejoicing with them when they succeed. But these are just dreams in my mind; dreams that often leave me heartbroken.

Regret is one of the hardest pains because it is a constant reminder that we failed.”

Shane Idleman “My Child Would Have Been 22 This Year” Focus on the Family

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Pro-choicers call homeless shelter for pregnant women “an outrage”

Pro-abortion writer Judith Orr describes how feminists were angry that a pro-life group was using tax dollars to build a shelter for pregnant homeless women. They would rather homeless women be on the street than be helped by a pro-life organization.

“… There was so much anger in March 2017 at the news that the Tory government had given 250,000 pounds raised from taxes on tampons and sanitary pads to the antiabortion organization Life. Life said it would fund a homeless shelter for pregnant women. Pro-choice campaigners argued that it was bad enough for necessary sanitary items to be taxed as “luxury” products, but for money generated by this “tampon tax” to be given to an organization that declares it won’t give up until “abortion is a thing of the past” was a “bloody outrage.”

Judith Orr Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2017) 91

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Abortion doula: Women feel they have no choice

An abortion doula, who comforts women during their abortions, says that many poor women feel they have no choice but to get abortions. Their life circumstances force them into abortions they might not really want. They are not empowered by their “choices” but feel trapped and think they have no other options.

“For many low-income women, getting an abortion can feel like the only option. A doula tells me a story about a woman who wanted to continue the pregnancy but had lost her job, run through all her savings, and was living in a homeless shelter. “I can deal with this, but I’d never do it to a baby,” she said. Patients talk about how impossible it is to find jobs, child care, a safe place to live, health care.”

Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

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Writer complains that only women who regret their abortions talk about them

Pro-Choice author Jodi Enda complains that not enough people who have had abortions are publicly speaking about their experiences. Of course, she only wants stories from women who are glad they chose abortion.  She laments the fact that the only people speaking out about their abortions are women who regret them.

“… Now, when a right they’ve taken for granted is in jeopardy, virtually the only people speaking out about their choice to terminate a pregnancy are those who say they regret having made it…”

Jodi Enda “The Women’s View” The American Prospect April 2005

Enda wants more women who are happy with their choice to tell their stories. What does the fact that so few women come out with “happy” abortion stories mean?

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Former abortion worker: overweight women were charged more

From Shelley Guillory, who worked in an abortion facility called Delta Women’s Clinic. 

“The one thing I found about our clinic that was humiliating and dehumanizing was that if a larger woman came in, she was charged an additional $150 to $200 because she created a little bit more difficulty because of her size. Whether the abortion was complicated or not. Because she was large, she was charged extra.”

Guillory said this in a webcast sponsored by Abby Johnson’s group And Then There Were None.

Johnson commented on Guillory’s revelation:

“We’ve heard that before. It’s not something we did at our clinic, but it’s something we’ve heard before, that they basically had an overweight fee for women who weighed a little more. They would charge more for the abortion procedure, which is so vile and so anti-empowerment – I mean like, how good does that make you feel? Like, you’re over 195 pounds, you’re getting a fee for that. It’s so anti-woman and so against everything they say they are about.… I hear all the time – Planned Parenthood, the abortion industry, talking about how we don’t want to shame women, no shame, no stigma, blah blah blah, unless you’re certain size, then we’re going to charge you more to perform an abortion.”

Sarah Terzo “Abortion facility charged overweight women more for their abortions” Live Action News  

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Pro-Choice demonstrators make their children wear “I’m a Choice” pins

Pro-Choice lawyer Sarah Weddington, who argued the Roe Vs. Wade case before the Supreme Court, writes about a pro-abortion demonstration she went to. It was called the March for Women’s Lives She recalls:

“I remember various images from that day… A man in a big cowboy hat carrying a sign that read: “Cowboys for Choice”; a number of older women identifying themselves as “Menopausal Women Nostalgic for Choice,” and younger ones calling themselves “NY Yankee Fans for Choice.”

I was buoyed up by the pageantry of young people holding up placards… “Stand UP for Choice,” and “We Will Not Go Back.”

Children wore pins that said “I’m a Choice,” and families carried placards announcing: “This Family Is Pro-Choice.”

Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 233

Can you imagine a woman forcing her child to wear a button saying “I’m a choice?” These parents are emphasizing the fact that they could have killed their children. How is that child going to feel growing up, knowing he or she could just as easily have been killed in the womb?

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Director of National Abortion Federation: Abortion is profitable

Uta Landy, then executive director of the National Abortion Federation, said:

“Abortion certainly is profitable…Making money is not a bad thing.”

Scott Kraft “The Business is Abortion: And It’s a Big Business” Observer-Reporter January 18, 1983

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Pro-Choice feminist Naomi Wolf on pro-lifers

In an interview pro-choice author Naomi Wolf admitted that she had “been raised all her life” to “demonize” pro-lifers.

She says:

“I have to reckon with the fact that many of the people I’ve heard from on that side [pro-life] of the divide are thoughtful, ethical people who respect women and who believe that it is a deep moral concern and even a deep religious concern to raise the status of women in society.”

The interview took place with William F. Buckley on the TV show “Firing Line.”

Carole Novielli “Pro-choice feminist: Abortion leads to ‘cheapened view of human life’” Live Action News December 15, 2017

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Abortionist experiences feelings of remorse

In a book on abortion counseling, one British abortionist said:

“I occasionally feel pangs of remorse and have to remind myself of the consequences of the woman’s continuing with the pregnancy.”

Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 175

Prebon baby at 10 weeks, legal to abort in both England and the US
Prebon baby at 10 weeks, legal to abort in both England and the US
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Parents call baby with Down syndrome the “greatest joy of our lives”

The parents of a child with Down Syndrome shared the following:

“Three years ago we had a child with Down syndrome, a closed esophagus and leukemia. After months of heartache, long hours at the hospital, not to mention unpaid bills, today he is the greatest joy of our lives. Anyone whose mischief can make me laugh before I’ve had my first cup of coffee in the morning can’t be all bad.… Who is more severely handicapped, someone who asks for nothing but hugs and cookies, or the person who would deny him an existence because he will never be a doctor or a lawyer?”

Randall J Hekman Justice for the Unborn (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1984) 56

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