Posted on 01/25/2015 9:16:03 PM PST by Morgana
From a woman who had two abortions, one after rape:
“Had I been told the truth about the risks that I was taking with my body and about the developing persons inside of me, I know that I would not have made the decision to destroy life. There are those people who can deliberately take the life of another person, but that is not my nature. Yet I must live with the truth, because that is what I have done.
I still feel that I probably couldn’t have loved that child conceived of rape, but there are so many people who would have loved that baby dearly. The man who raped me took a few moments of my life, but I took that innocent baby’s entire life. That is not justice, as I see it.”
David C Reardon Aborted Women: Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway books, 1987) 212
My Mother is no longer alive, but she made it to 93. I was the product of her being raped, 70 years ago. She had the option of abortion and chose --that's right, she made a CHOICE-- not to do so. I am forever grateful to her for the life I have and have had these several decades. My Mother chose life, my life, and it was not in any way an easy life for her raising me with two older brothers. But she had a long and productive life, influencing many many kids as a wonderful sixth grade teacher, so we might say God blessed her greatly for the choice she made. I certainly see it that way. And I was able to be a large aid/comfort in her later decades, in ways she could never have anticipated seventy years ago.
Thank you.
““Had I been told the truth about the risks that I was taking with my body and about the developing persons inside of me, I know that I would not have made the decision to destroy life.”
THAT is why pro abortion activists stop legislation to require the pregnant woman to view an ultrasound of just exactly what/whom she is trying to get rid of. A GREAT number of those women would CHOOSE (which is contrary to what “Pro-choice” activists want) to spare the baby’s life.
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