Posted on 08/11/2019 6:47:04 PM PDT by Morgana
A new video from the pro-life group Created Equal features the story of Andrea Lantzy, a post-abortive woman who had been dealing with the aftermath of the abortion for three decades. In the video, Lantzy describes how the experience affected her life before she finally found healing in the understanding of what abortion is and the forgiveness God offers.
Lantzy and her boyfriend sought abortion when she unexpectedly became pregnant after graduating from high school and becoming estranged from her family by choice. She explained, “At the time, we were under the impression that it wasn’t a life. We were just trying to hurry up and get it done.” Without support from her family and in a situation of instability, Lantzy thought her only option was abortion.
Following the abortion, Lantzy said, “I wanted to get on with my life, but it was something that was always there, like a dark cloud over my life.” As newspapers and magazines began to cover emerging findings in prenatal development, Lantzy encountered images of babies at about 11 weeks, the gestational age at which her child was aborted. Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levation explains in the video below how a preborn child is aborted at 11 weeks gestation through an aspiration (or D&C) abortion.
“That’s when it really hit me what I had done, and that’s when I really started to just try to bury it and forget it and not think about it,” Lantzy explained.
Despite her efforts to suppress the memories of her abortion, in retrospect, it affected every aspect of her life causing anger and eventually depression.
Unexpectedly, it was at a pro-life prayer breakfast when a video depicting what abortion is helped to release Lantzy from her guilt. She said, “Even though I had had an abortion, I didn’t really know what it was.” Encountering the truth, Lantzy found healing and said that in those images she knew that God forgave her for what she had done.
Baby Nielson was miscarried at 11 weeks gestation. Photo by Jaelyn Barnes.
Even though this information is now accessible through the internet, Lantzy believes that many people still do not know what abortion is and do not think about the consequences when they seek to end their preborn child’s life. Other post-abortive mothers have expressed similar feelings, saying that viewing images of abortion victims is “a stage of my healing process.”
One commenter on the YouTube video confirmed Lanzty’s inclination that other mothers seeking abortion still do not know what abortion is. “My story is similar I had an abortion 2 years ago and wish I knew what I know now,” she wrote. “It is taught that abortion is your only option.”
Hiding the truth about abortion harms post-abortive women who consent to one without realizing what they are consenting to and prevents some women from finding healing by accepting what has happened to their preborn child killed by abortion.
Society doesn’t even know, how many abortive women are unable to bear children in later life. The evil abort industry is no way wants facts to ever come out.
They either can’t or have great trouble.
I was the male party to two of them in the late 70s early 80s to this day I’m haunted by them ashamed and empty
The N.E. Journal of Medicine published an article on how an abortion in a woman’s 20’s is more likely to lead to cancer in her 40’s. Written in the 90’s I do believe. Anyone remember that? The reaction was swift and negative. It only makes sense that pregnancy builds up a womans defense mechanisms and makes her healthy. The left couldn’t handle it.
I read somewhere in quotes by abortionists: “Of course the fetus feels pain. But telling the woman that would just complicate an already difficult decision.”
I think that all women deserve the truth and facts about abortion. If she understands that yes, abortion does brutally kill a sentient baby and that she can become unable to carry a full term baby or even completely lose her fertility as a result of the abortion, then she just might make a different choice. Or decide not to get pregnant until she actually wants a baby.
Yes I remember that and it sure was ignored
I will have to look that up. I remember a lot of discussion about abortion increasing the risk of breast cancer, and that was quickly suppressed because nothing is allowed to suppress the profitability of the abortion industry.
However, breast cancer risk factors (that are told to breast cancer patients) include not having a full-term pregnancy or similar language; it seems to be talking around the fact that abortion increases breast cancer risk.
Breast cancer used to occur in one out of 12 women; it is now one out of eight women. That’s a huge increase in the last few decades. Abortion cannot be responsible for that entire increase (since not that many women have abortions), but is most likely responsible for a large proportion of it.
“The N.E. Journal of Medicine published an article on how an abortion in a woman’s 20’s is more likely to lead to cancer in her 40’s.”
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It’s correct information; over the decades more and more information has come out to that effect.
A miscarriage is the body’s natural way, even if caused by bodily shock/harm of eliminating the child and the body quickly starts to heal.
An abortion stops the body’s natural responses in its track and the body cannot revert to its natural balance for a far longer time. Put simply: Abortion messes up everything.
So much women/girls are not told and the truly saddening fact is that many will elect to take the role of the dice.
I’m glad this woman has found some degree of healing, but I will still pray for her.
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