Posted on 06/12/2020 7:23:36 AM PDT by Morgana
In 2015, Lisa Robertson and her husband Alan, both of “Duck Dynasty” fame, published a book that included information about an abortion Robertson had when she was a teenager. In her new book, “Desperate Forgiveness,” she is now revealing more details about that abortion which she says she now regrets.
Robertson told US Magazine in 2015 that the reason she chose to share her past abortion was because she knew there were other women in the world struggling with regret and grief as well. “I had one girl tell me she has cried herself to sleep just about every night for the last 25 years after having an abortion, and nobody else knows about it,” Robertson said. “She regretted it all this time, but she just can’t seem to find a place of healing from it. So I thought it was a very unique thing for somebody who is in our position to say, ‘Look, I did this. And you can find healing and comfort from Jesus in it.'”
At age 16, Robertson realized she was pregnant, and decided that abortion was the best option for her. The nurse, she wrote, tried to calm her anxiety about the abortion and told her, “Remember… this is just tissue. We will just remove this tissue from your body. It won’t hurt, but you will probably have some cramping. After that, you won’t have to think about this ever again.”
Nothing could have been further from the truth.
“I chose death for my child — death for the life living inside of me, death to the future generations that could have been born, death to one of God’s precious children,” wrote Robertson. “I thought my decision would end my problem, but I still live with the painful consequences of that decision every day.”
In her book, she wrote that indeed she made “a choice,” but she knows there were “no excuses” for it. She said she now realizes that while she felt like there were contributing factors, in the end, it was her choice, and hers alone. The circumstances didn’t matter, and didn’t justify causing the death of her child.
“I believed I had to face my decision on my own without help from anyone else,” she wrote. “I realize now I was fatally wrong about that. I hope that you never find yourself in a similar predicament, but if you do, I hope you’ll reach out to someone who cares, and choose life.”
Many women feel like Robertson did when she had her abortion — as if they have no other choice at all. And that is not freedom. Rather than set her free from her “problem” of unplanned pregnancy, Robertson — and other women who chose abortion — have been chained down by it for decades. They could not and will never forget the deaths of their babies — and neither should we.
Kudo’s to her for being honest and open about her regret, shame, and pain. A lot of young women hopefully benefit from her story.
Very powerful. She has taken full responsibility, and wants to help others from making the same mistake. This is how to access God’s forgiveness and mercy.
Amen!
Thank you for your help communicating this out, Lisa.
I love that whole family. Decent people.
Very sad.
Even Actress Gloria Swanson expressed profound regret for having had an abortion that was performed years before....she never got over the decision she made to destroy a life.
In many cases there is a guy egging on or being so irresponsible, he is euqally guilty in abandonment and putting it on her shoulders. That being said, It is a choice if it was done hidden or with rebelliousness at the bottom of intentions. There was this one crazy chick who told me her grandma and other old relative had an abortion, and she was justifying it all purely emotionally and not even materially , in that “they did it in the times when it was not legal...”
This is when you know unconsciously the person is a fiend, enjoying both the righteous rebelliousness of it and yet the victimhood of it. And this person telling me that pretended that she was pro life... the love of hypocrisy and the hypocrite is incredible. These types also often will describe situations of birth dilemma and phobia as resulting from a “rape”. So the question is if there was this strange hypocrite “ entente” between raped and rapist to both agree to go to PP and push the abortion or make it a dilemma...
“ In many cases there is a guy egging on or being so irresponsible, he is [euqally] guilty “
In all cases there is a guy...being so irresponsible, he is equally guilty
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