A postabortion woman shared her story:
“My abortion was in 1979. It was just right out of my divorce. My son, who is now 35, was only two at the time. And I felt like I had no choice.
I was very uneducated. I thought there was no life before a certain time. I had no idea that at 12 weeks when I aborted my baby, the baby was developed and had a heartbeat. I just didn’t have any idea. We didn’t have any education back then. It was just like, ‘do it, get out and that’s it.’
And I didn’t deal with it for a long time. I believe it can take women years to deal with the abortion, the emotions. That’s what happened to me.
Once I did get remarried and had a husband and they raised three children. But I began to be really depressed. I began to be really ugly to my children. I didn’t know what was wrong.
After she dealt with her abortion on a postabortion healing weekend:
You’ll always remember the anniversary of the abortion. You’ll remember the anniversary of what their birthday would have been. I still cry. I still have emotions, but it’s okay. It still hurts, but it don’t hurt like it did then….. I wish I’d never been able to make that decision.
‘It still hurts,’ says woman who had abortion in 1979 The Tennessean May 19, 2012
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