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We had just killed her baby: Mother of woman who had abortion

Teri Stanton’s daughter Sheri had an abortion; Teri agreed with her decision and encouraged her. Right after the abortion, they both have second thoughts.Finally, she realizes we had just killed her baby.

“I wasn’t prepared for what I saw as the door to the procedure room opened. There on a flat, cold, stainless steel table, laid my little girl, alone. Her baby is gone from her now. Sheri was covered in a white sheet. Her face was as pale as the sheet that covered her. Her eyes were glazed over and her pupils were dilated. She’d been given some sort of anesthesia. The nurse instructed me to get her up and dressed and we should leave, through the side door, not the front door, as soon as possible…

I just wanted her out of this awful place! Sheri stood up, holding onto the table for balance… As I walked over to the chair to get her clothes, the metal trashcan cranked open and, as I spun around, Sheri was vomiting. Immediately, blood began gushing from her wounded body. In horror, as blood pooled around her bare feet, she cried,

“That’s… my baby’s blood!”

It was the first time since the nightmare began that Sheri said the words “my baby.” In that one moment, the abortion, the horror, the reality of the murder of a tiny life, came flooding in with unabashed, intolerable reality. We had just killed her baby.”

Teri Stanton Two Minus One: Our Abortion Story (Meadville, PA: Christian faith Publishing, Inc., 2016) 39 – 40

After her abortion, she wished picketers had stopped her

From a doctor who had an abortion when she was younger. and now deeply regrets it:

“… As I left through the front door of the clinic that day there were several protesters on the front sidewalk. I could feel their stares penetrating me as I avoided their eyes. The best I could muster at that moment was anger towards them. “How can they be here at a time like this? They have no idea what I’m going through. I wish they would keep their opinions to themselves.” What would I say to those people now? “Thank you for being here and standing up for what you believe in”? Or would it be “Why couldn’t you have been there to stop on my way in?”

Marissa Ogle, M.D. Still Healing:(2016) 16

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“Was yours a boy or girl?” Postabortion woman hears

One woman who had an abortion described being in the recovery room and coming to terms with what had just happened:

“After the procedure was over, I was taken to another room and told to sit for a while. Several younger girls were sitting in chairs lined up against the wall. A girl, who looked like she was about 16, asked, “Was yours a boy or a girl?” I was shocked! What did she mean? Surely this wasn’t a baby! Not yet!”

Barbara Horak Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and the Healing (El Paso, Texas: Strive for the Best Publishing, 2007) 80 – 81

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Abortion patient gets pelvic inflammatory disease and other problems

Randi, who had an abortion:

“It physically affected me a lot. I got really sick from it. I was looking for a job and I was run down during the summer and so I just felt really drained and exhausted by all that and then following that I got pelvic inflammatory disease and a bladder infection and a kidney infection that were all complicated by each other and laid me out for a couple of months. I had very severe cramps for a while…

I thought about it more selfishly. I thought about in terms of myself.”

Judith G. Smetana Concepts of Self and Morality: Women’s Reasoning about Abortion (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1982) 97

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Second trimester abortion is “gruesome” says abortionist

Abortionist Richard Hausknecht on second trimester abortions:

“Any procedure at this stage is pretty gruesome. When I did second-trimester abortions, I did them late in the day, and when I’d get home, my wife would say, ‘You did one today, didn’t you?’ It would be all over my face.”

DEBORAH SONTAG “Doctors Say It’s Just One Way” New York Times MARCH 21, 1997

A D&E is the most common method of abortion in the 2nd trimester. See diagram below:

Read an abortionists’ in-depth description of this type of abortion

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“No counselors spoke to me” at Planned Parenthood

A woman describes the lack of counseling at Planned Parenthood

“Inside, I signed in and paid the fee. No counselors spoke to me and soon I was ushered into a cold, stark room with bare walls. I was lying on a table that was so cold I shivered. A nurse told me it would be over quickly and I could return to work the next day. She said it wouldn’t hurt.

She was absolutely wrong!”

Barbara Horak Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and the Healing (El Paso, Texas: Strive for the Best Publishing, 2007) 80

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Risks after abortion: depression +37%, alcohol use/abuse +110%,

A pro-life doctor writes about psychological health risks of abortion:

“In an article written by Dr. Priscilla Coleman, a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, she offers the most comprehensive assessment of mental health risks associated with an abortion that can be found anywhere in published medical literature. In brief summary, the increase in risk for anxiety disorders was 34%, depression 37%, alcohol use/abuse 110%, marijuana use/abuse 220% and suicide 155%.”

Marissa Ogle, M.D. Still Healing (2016) 14-15

She is citing:

Priscilla K Coleman “Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995 – 2009) The British Journal of Psychiatry 47.9 (2013)

Learn about more studies on abortion’s emotional and psychological effects

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Woman pressured into abortion by her doctor

A woman was taking pills for tumor she had, and then notified the doctor that she was pregnant.

“Soon after I started this medicine, I became pregnant… But my doctor wasn’t happy. Because of the medication, he told me I could not have this baby because my life would be in danger and that my baby could be a monster. He said, “You must decide quickly to have a D&C before the heart starts beating.” He never talked to me about alternatives.

I was seven weeks pregnant, and at the time, I did not know a baby’s heart is beating just three weeks after conception. Looking back, I don’t know why the doctor gave me the wrong information or why he would not use the word “abortion” to describe what he wanted me to do.”

7 weeks

She got no counseling at Planned Parenthood and describes her pain after the abortion:

“On the way home, I was in excruciating pain. At home standing in my kitchen, I began hemorrhaging. Dail helped me to the bathroom where I passed more bloody pieces! After I got into bed, I called my mother, but she said that maybe we shouldn’t talk about it. I felt too ashamed to call the doctor. Although the doctor called it a D&C, I knew Planned Parenthood did abortions.”….

Feet of baby at 7 weeks

I do know that my baby’s size, the level of her physical and mental development, and her possible dependency and special needs did not justify her death…

When the abortion clinic nurse told me, “This will be over quickly,” she didn’t tell me that I would regret it for the rest of my life.

Even though my situation might be viewed as a “tough case” and one that many people would consider a justifiable reason for abortion, I still consider it a tragic and irreversible choice that has caused me deep pain and regret…

I learned that grieving, which is so important in healing, is quashed by a society that doesn’t want to hear and doesn’t understand.”

Barbara Horak Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and the Healing (El Paso, Texas: Strive for the Best Publishing, 2007) 79, 81-82

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Abortionist on why women have 2nd trimester abortions

Late Term abortionist Dr. Richard Hausknecht describes the reasons women get late-term abortions:

“There are a large number of second trimester terminations in this country and they are of two versions. There are the women who have seriously abnormal pregnancies, and then the larger group, who are usually young or indigent.”

The author of the article says:

“Among these women [who have late term abortions], doctors say, are teen-agers who deny their pregnancies, drug users and women who are menopausal or irregular in their periods.”

DEBORAH SONTAG “Doctors Say It’s Just One Way” New York Times MARCH 21, 1997

16 weeks – most babies aborted at this age are healthy and not abnormal

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Abortion clinic: “don’t come back here” if you have a problem

A mother who accompanied her daughter to and abortion clinic described the “counseling” they gave – and their command not to return to the clinic if she had complications.

“A middle-aged woman called Sheri’s name and we followed her into a small room in the back corner office with a messy desk and two chairs. As we sat down, she introduced herself as the counselor. She verified Sheri’s name, birthday, and the date of her last period. She explained with an expressionless, mundane attitude that the “termination” might be a little uncomfortable and she recommended “a little something to take the edge off.” She said that a bit of cramping and bleeding is to be expected. If the bleeding became more like hemorrhaging, however, go to the Emergency Room, “Don’t come back here.” This apparent lack of professional responsibility was a little unsettling. She was rather emphatic and repeats, “Don’t come back here if you have complications. Go to the nearest hospital. And follow up with your doctor in two or three days.”

I thought counseling is defined as some sort of wise advice or guidance, information and recommendation, or at the very least, options. But, in this case, I guess I was wrong. The counseling session was over. Sheri was ushered to a treatment room, alone, without me.”

Teri Stanton Two Minus One: Our Abortion Story (Meadville, PA: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., 2016) 36 – 37

The fact that the clinic did not want to bother with women who had complications and would rather dump them at the emergency room is disturbing.

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