Posted on 05/20/2024 12:40:41 PM PDT by Morgana
In a book by pro-life writer Janet Morana, Mary Kominsky gives her testimony of abortion.
Mary Kominsky had an abortion after the father of her baby abandoned her. It was before Roe v. Wade, but abortion was legal in New York. Misled by Planned Parenthood
Kominsky went to Planned Parenthood, and the abortionist misled her about the development of her preborn baby.
Kominsky says:
Fear had led me to the belief in the lies surrounding abortion…After all, the doctor at Planned Parenthood told me it was just a clump of cells and tissue even though I was 11 weeks pregnant.
Technically, the abortion doctor wasn’t lying. Everyone who reads this is a clump of cells and tissue. We all are. That is what human beings are made of.
But the worker’s words hid the true nature of Kominsky’s preborn baby. Fetal Development at 11 Weeks
At the time of the abortion, Kominsky’s baby had had a beating heart for 8 weeks. He or she had a brain that was giving off waves. A baby at 11 weeks responds to touch showing a startle reaction when he or she is touched with something.
She can have the hiccups. She is already right or left-handed. She has lungs and “breathes” amniotic fluid to practice breathing air when she is born.
He or she not only had hands and fingers but also fingerprints. These fingerprints marked him or her as a unique individual who had never existed before and will never exist again.
This baby would have been somebody’s best friend, and possibly someone’s husband or wife.
Kominsky writes that that to have the abortion “I had to detach my mind, my heart, and my emotions. In shutting these off, my heart hardened and turned cold.” The Abortion’s Aftermath
The abortion worker promised Kominsky she could “go on with her life as if nothing had happened.” But Kominsky says, “[J]ust the opposite came true.”
She writes about her emotional trauma:
Following the procedure, I was deeply traumatized as fear turned into guilt and shame. It was not a simple surgical procedure as I had been promised…
Initially, there is a relief of not having to face uncertainty, but that often turns to great sadness. I became angry and resentful to all those around me. I had a deep shame and a profound sense of loss.
Kominsky is one of many brave post-abortive women who have come forward with their stories to show how toxic abortion is to both the mother and the baby. Hopefully, her story will help other pregnant people to choose life, and avoid the trauma of abortion.
Source: Mary Kominsky “Foreword” in Janet Morana Everything You Need to Know about Abortion – For Teens (Gastonia, North Carolina: TAN Books, 2021) xii, xiii
Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 900 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies.
My 35 yo daughter gave birth about an hour ago to her 3rd after having two girls who are now 8 & 6. It’s a boy. What joy. The 2 little ones are so excited to see their new baby brother.
My sister was talked into an abortion when she was 16. After 50 years she cries her heart out on the anniversary of the procedure. The saddest part is that she has been married to the aborted baby’s father for almost 48 years. He feels the pain too.
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