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Christian woman has abortion, regrets it

A post-abortive woman named Bell told her story:

“I had been raised in church. I was trying to live a Christian life… What made it worse was my boyfriend, who grew up his whole life in the church…

My best friend, who was also a Christian, tried to talk me out of it. But I didn’t listen, I remember going to the clinic in a daze. They put me under, so I don’t have any recollection. I just remember waking up in a panic. The realization of what I had done was overwhelming.

Before the procedure was done, I had an ultrasound and I saw my unborn child. When I woke up that was the first thing I saw before my eyes closed. A few weeks later, I had to go back to the clinic for a checkup.

I just remember sitting there in the waiting room, wanting to tell the girls there not to do it. I wanted to say something to make them turn back from what would probably be one of the biggest mistakes of their lives. But I didn’t know what to say…

My boyfriend and I stayed together, it made us stronger, but sometimes I threw it in his face. If only he had been more supportive. If only, I had to realize that it hurt him just as much as it hurt me.

I was really hurt when his little sister became pregnant. His family was so happy, and I felt so guilty that I had denied them a chance to get to know their grandchild and nephew, for, in my heart, I know it was a boy. I still struggle with it.”

Martha Jensen Abortion: Information and One’s Own Journey (2020)

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Legal Abortion Death: Liliana Cortez, 22

Researcher Kevin Sherlock documented the death of a 22-year-old woman:

“Liliana Cortez, a 22-year-old housekeeper from Guatemala, suffered a cardiac arrest while undergoing an abortion at Her Medical Clinic on September 20, 1986.

According to Liliana’s family’s attorney, subpoenaed records show Her staffers caused a 40-minute delay in the arrival of paramedics after Liliana went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics took Liliana, who was also an asthmatic, to a nearby hospital, where she died five days later.

A medical examiner in the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office determined the staffers at Her Medical Clinic caused Liliana’s death.”

Source: Los Angeles Herald Examiner 2/22/88

Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 42

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Woman chooses life for baby with Down syndrome with help of pregnancy center

Two authors who worked at a pregnancy resource center told the following story:

“Trina was nearing 40 with three nearly-grown children. She was less than happy with her positive pregnancy test. As a Christian, she believed abortion was wrong and had no intention of ending her pregnancy, but when her Amniotic Fluid Test indicated a possibility of Down’s Syndrome, she struggled with that decision…

Trina decided to go through with the pregnancy. Our staff offered all of the encouragement and prayer we could during her pregnancy. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Hope.

Hope was about six months old when Trina came in one day to get diapers and other baby items. It was unusually quiet at the center that day, so we sat and visited for a while. Little Hope giggled and cooed away in her car seat, kicking her little feet.

Trina grew quiet and didn’t say anything for a minute or two. Finally, she brushed a tear from her eye and said, “Just look at her. She’s so perfect. There’s nothing wrong with her. I can’t tell you how I shudder to think that she might not have been in my life.”

Mary Ann Gustin and Peggy R Hembree Let the Miracles Begin (2016) 47

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Women report pain is worst part of taking abortion pill

A report from The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said the following about the abortion pill:

“Bleeding generally starts as the tissue begins to separate from the endometrium and continues for several days after the abortion is complete.

The heaviest bleeding occurs during and immediately following the passage of the gestational sac and lasts one to two days. Some bleeding and spotting may occur up to 9 – 16 days.

Like bleeding, uterine pain and cramping are an expected and normal consequence of medication abortion. Cramping can last from a half-day to three days.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are typically recommended to manage the pain…However, some women still report high levels of pain, and pain is commonly reported as the worst feature of the method.

Prophylactic regimens for pain management are an area of active research.

Other side effects reported by women who undergo medication abortion include nausea, vomiting, weakness, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, fever, and chills. About 85% of patients report at least one of these side effects, and many patients are expected to report more than one.”

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services: The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018) 54

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Pro-Choice author: Women have abortions due to “maternal instinct”

From pro-choice author Miriam Claire:

“There are many reasons for choosing to have an abortion. Perhaps underlying them all is a deeply maternal, instinctive feeling that the time is not right to give birth and that to do so would be detrimental to all concerned…

It is a maternal instinct that prompts women to have an abortion, because they don’t believe that they can provide emotional and physical sustenance for a child (or another child) at that time in their life.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (Xlibris Corporation, 2013) 15, 31

Below: 8-week old baby. Before and after abortion.

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Abortionist does abortion on Black woman to reduce the Black population

British author Fran Amery wrote about how in England:

“In the 1970s…women frequently reported encounters with unsympathetic and patronizing doctors who would not refer them for abortions.

Yet in 1977, the feminist magazine Spare Rib reported on the case of a black woman who found it easy to access an abortion through her doctor, only to later discover that the same doctor consistently refused abortions and hormonal contraception to white women and was known to want to keep the black population from rising.”

Fran Amery Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020) 34

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Woman had abortion because her mixed-race child was “very unlikely to be adopted”

One woman says why she had an abortion:

“At the time I was in a relationship with a man who was black, and the pregnancy was the result of contraceptive failure.

The relationship was over by the time I found out about the pregnancy, I had no way of supporting a child, and I knew that if I went ahead, a mixed-race child was very unlikely to be adopted.

I discovered I was pregnant fairly early on, but I was just under 12 weeks when I had the procedure and I have never regretted it.”

Martha Jensen Abortion: Information and One’s Own Journey (2020)

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Christian gives his reasons for renting to an abortion clinic

Pro-life activist Norman L Geisler writes:

“One day my curiosity was piqued at our clinic when I wondered who owned the building they were renting out to kill unborn babies. I wish I hadn’t asked. Unbelievably, it turned out to be two Roman Catholic businessmen and an evangelical Christian!

I thought I would like to speak to the evangelical. When we met for breakfast, I asked if he knew what was transpiring in his building.

He did, but immediately passed the responsibility onto his wife with whom he inquired before he entered the contract to rent the building to abortionists. She rationalized to him, “Well I would like to think there was a place our daughter could go, if she got into trouble!”

When I pointed out that he was profiting from renting a building in which they were regularly killing little unborn human beings, he justified his actions, saying, “If I dropped out of the contract, I would lose thousands of dollars.”

Norman L Geisler “Foreward” in David Ross Choosing for Two: An Examination of Abortion Decision-Making and Its Implications for Crisis Counseling (Portland, Oregon MW Media, 2017) vi

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Former abortionist records abortion on ultrasound, is horrified by what he saw

In 1984, the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson created the groundbreaking video “The Silent Scream,” which showed a baby being aborted via ultrasound. He was the cofounder of the pro-abortion group NARAL, and performed many abortions before he became pro-life.

In his memoir, he wrote:

By 1984, however, I had begun to ask myself more questions about abortion: what actually goes on in an abortion? I had done many, but abortion is a blind procedure. The doctor does not see what he’s doing. He puts an instrument into a uterus and he turns on a motor, and the suction machine goes on and something is vacuumed out; it ends up as a little pile of meat in a gauze bag.

I wanted to know what happened, so in 1984 I said to a friend of mine, who was doing 15 or maybe 20 abortions a day, “Look, do me a favor, Jay. Next Saturday, when you doing all these abortions, put an ultrasound device on the mother and tape it for me.”

He did, and when he looked at the tapes with me in an editing studio, he was so affected that he never did another abortion. I, though I had not done an abortion in five years, was shaken to the very roots of my soul by what I saw.

Nathanson, Bernard N, M.D The Hand of God: a Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Inc, 1996) 140 – 141

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Death of kitten triggers woman’s post-abortive grief

Lurlene McDaniel recalled the following story, told to her by a post-abortive woman:

“My son’s kitten died and we had a funeral for it in the backyard. I watched his tear-stained face as he lowered the box that held his pet into the ground and felt a huge lump inside my throat. And then it occurred to me that I was shedding tears over a dead animal…a creature without a soul.

Years before, I had an abortion and never in all this time had I consciously thought about that unborn baby. I never cried for it, or about it. The revelation shook me so profoundly that I started to cry and I couldn’t stop. My son kept asking, “What’s wrong, Mommy?” And I couldn’t tell him.”

Lurlene McDaniel “And Rachel Wept” in Phyllis Tickle, ed. Confessing Conscience: Churched Women on Abortion (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1990) 66 – 67

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