A teenager who was being pressured to abort by her boyfriend and his mother told herself her baby was just a parasite:
“On Friday morning, I muffled my sobs in the shower. I jabbed my belly with my finger and called my baby a parasite, trying to distance myself from what I was about to do. My heart wasn’t in those words, but I knew if I was going to do this, I had to do everything I could to keep my mind from envisioning a little face that would never be.”
Barbara Horak Real Abortion Stories: The Hurting and the Healing (El Paso, Texas: Strive for the Best Publishing, 2007) 24
She later deeply regretted the abortion.
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