Stace says
"I have friends that have had abortions, and they are firmly pro choice. And yes, they were pro choice before the fact as well, so it's not a "defense of what they did". They shouldn't have to defend anything."
Well you are young so most people your age are pro-choice. I was too at your age. But let me tell you, things have a way of coming back to haunt you.
I had my abortion at 24 years old. I was an educated woman but uneducated about abortion. I walked in, paid the money, sat in line, got the abortion and didn't phase me one bit. The physical pain I thought about however. Got married at 25, had my first child at 26, my second at 28. I began to think a little bit about abortion along the way. The abortion I had happened to be my husbands child.
A few years later my sister had a child at 21 1/2 weeks. They called the family in to see her before they thought she would die. She was 1 pound, and smaller than a telephone receiver. You could literally see the blood running through her tiny veins. I stood there and had my FIRST PANIC ATTACK. Not because of her size or the fact that she might die but because of what I knew I had done. I talked to nurses about fetal growth and development and realized I had been wrong, totally wrong. Not many people get to see a little one this small. It literally shocks you. The whole neonatal unit was filled with little ones.
So I went through some depression. Probably ten years after that I became so depressed I had to seek counseling. I thought about suicide. All I could do was to think of what I had done, that I had taken a life. I did research and read and talked to people in the medical field. I couldn't function. It affected all aspects of my life. Nothing helped me. The facts spoke for themselves.
On 9-11 as those building came down I gave my life to Christ. I asked HIm to forgive me, and He did. I know I am forgiven in my heart, but the facts remain the same. I took a life.
I work for The Right To Life in my state, trying to witness about my experience and to educate woman about fetal development. Nine out of ten woman (even those pregnant) have no clue about the development of the child they carry. And when I work the booth at schools and fairs......I would say the vast majority do not know either.
Funny most men posting on here say, this isn't and shouldn't be an emotional issue. Wrong. The facts themselves make abortion an emotional issue. Every photograph of an aborted baby, every testimony of woman devastated by post abortion stress syndrome, every story of woman being lied to and exploited by the abortion industry is emotional. No wonder- since all the facts point one direction-abortion kills children. Pro-lifers like myself don't make this an emotional issue, it is an emotional issue. How could the killing of innocent children be anything less.
Pro choice advocates compensate for their lack of factual foundations by appealing to the emotions through horror stories of back alley abortions and pregnancies due to rape. Sometimes their treatment of the factual data is inaccurate in the extreme.
In 1961,
Dr. Alan Guttmaucher director of Planned Parenthood wrote that when,
"fertilization has taken place; a BABY has been conceived."
Landrum Shettles and David Rorvik, Rites of Life (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1983), 112-3.
A 1963 Planned Parenthood publication stated,
"An abortion KILLS THE LIFE of a baby after it has begun." 'Plan Your Children for Health and Happiness" (New York
lanned Parenthood-World Population, 1963), 1.
What PP knew then has since been proven. Abortion kills. The worlds biggest abortion provider and they admitted it in their literature. Of course now its a money making industry.......so they don't say it today. They do not want their old literature out and they do not share this information with the public. The old stuff doesn't serve their agenda today.
I know from experience that for every abortion there are two victims, one dead and one damaged. Your friends might be fine today, but tomorrow just might be another story. You can't tell me with 100% certainty that they will not go through what I did. Look at the men and woman that suffer with psychological trouble after wars.
Woman do not have to lie to themselves about what they are doing at the moment the abortion takes place, I believe they know. And most woman who have had abortions will tell you it was not their finest hour. Many woman remain haunted by guilt feelings that never go away.