Testimonials
of Women Who Have Had Abortions
"What have I done? What kind of person could do
this? I want it all to do over, Please God. Obsessed with how old my child
would be – what he looked like, if he forgave me. Hatred for
myself, for being weak. Anger at boyfriend for
not being white knight and saying "it’s all going to be o.k., I love you,
I will love this baby, together we’ll make it work." Now, I cried hysterically
most times and my arms would ache so terribly from agonizing to hold that
child that I’d hug a teddy bear just to have something there."
"An abortion can take your baby from your body but never from your heart."
"After the first abortion, I did get more depressed, I developed a very angry character; I became very violent. The second, I really didn’t notice a change. By the third I had a really low self-esteem and after the fourth, I became extremely promiscuous and self-destructive, throughout the years, with each abortion, I became more and more depressed and I gained more and more weight."
"I turned to the nurse and told her I didn’t think I could go through with it. She held my hand, telling me it would be over in a few minutes. Be fore I could reply, the suction machine was turned on, causing tremendous pain."
"I was frightened, it hurt so much. I wanted to scream. I wanted it to stop. I suddenly knew there was a baby inside. They were killing my baby!"
"Limping to the recovery room I felt nauseated, weak and defeated. I couldn’t stop crying, and neither could the other women there. My life was irreversibly changed at that moment. I cried for days and weeks – eventually years. I felt so dirty, so guilty, so unworthy to live."
"I would end up sobbing in a corner, fearful I was going crazy. It culminated one evening when I tried to cut my wrists with a broken plate. This desperate act scared me into getting help."
"Through counseling I let go of my anger and accepted the forgiveness that Jesus offers. Months later I forgave myself and began to mourn the loss of my child."
"Don’t believe them. They want your money! Which ever decision you choose between adoption or abortion you will always wonder about that child, his or her looks, personality, smile, character. I wonder those things. You are a mother if you are pregnant. You will still be a mother if you abort, only you will be the mother of a dead baby! You have a living growing baby in your womb. Give him life."
"Immediately after my abortion I went to my job at a local fast food restaurant. I proceeded to the restroom and filled the toilet with blood. I was very, very scared. I knew this was not normal. I knew my periods weren’t like this. The cramping was excruciating. The bleeding got worse. I believe now when I look back, I was hemorrhaging. I had blood clots the size of grapefruit. I bled like that for two more days."
"It was as if we were in an assembly-line, we were all waiting to have our babies vacuumed out of our bellies. I know how this has shattered lives."
"When the actual procedure was over I felt very empty. It was still a roller-coaster ride because of the bleeding."
"We are not animals, we are human beings with a conscience, with the ability to stay pure for the person God has intended us to marry. I wish I could have given my virginity to my husband whom I truly adore. I felt violated and raped for $350."
"Growing and maturing in a relationship with God has taken the pain from my past sins. Jesus alone is the only healer of our hurts. Going through the grieving process for my child, as you would for anyone you’ve lost to death is very important. For those that have had multiple abortions, your sin is not worse than my abortion of one. Sin is sin. Ask God for forgiveness, repent – He sees them no more."
"My deep pain about the unnecessary death of a child…my child. It was like reading an obituary. I’d close my eyes and see this tiny helpless little baby6 peacefully floating in amniotic fluid, did it struggle, did it die quickly…oh, how I hurt."
"My eldest daughter’s response…"Mom, you knew I always wanted an older brother or sister, so why did you kill them?…I had no answer."
"I know millions and millions of women across
this country feel as I do about abortion, we all somehow know deep down
inside that we alone made a horrible decision and no coined phrase
about choice and rights or the denial of biological
and fetal facts can ever erase the truth. For we as mothers instinctively
know during those still moments of aloneness, that we ended the life of
a separate human being growing inside of each and every one of us."
"Planned Parenthood is a big lie! What happened to me was not counseling, it was a plan to make money off my mother and myself by lying and tricking us at a very vulnerable time."
"I realized that my baby would die a horrible death and I knew I would be in pain both physically and mentally and I knew this was wrong. Planned Parenthood told me nothing about the saline abortion procedure but the way it sounded, just the name itself "saline", I knew I was in for the worst experience of my life."
"The physical pain of a saline abortion is very great. After being injected with the saline, the pain begins. I felt labor pains for approximately 16 to 18 hours, there is never a moment when the pain stops. The medication given to me to help the pain not only didn’t work but caused much vomiting and diarrhea."
"I felt so, so, so lonely!!"
"I really though I loved the baby’s father but
I don’t know if I was just with him because I was desperate for someone
to love. He wanted a sexual relationship and I just gave in thinking I
could
handle it, but I couldn’t. After the abortion
I just didn’t feel the same about him anymore. He wanted to continue to
have sex and I was in too much pain (emotionally). We stopped seeing each
other and when I did see him he would curse me out and call me a "baby
killer." He did that 2 times. One time when I saw him at a party and another
time when I saw him at a bar. I believe he was very hurt to lose a child
to abortion. I’m sure he felt like he had no say in this decision. I believe,
that men can be emotionally traumatized by abortion."
"I remember coming out of the anesthesia and being in tremendous pain, lots of severe cramping. I moaned and groaned because of the discomfort and the nurse kept coming by and telling me to shut-up the noise. The pain was so intense that I began vomiting."
"I was deceived because I was not told the truth about what an abortion means to the life of an unborn baby. I was not told that there were other options. I was not told that at 10 weeks (which is when I had my abortion) my child was already fully formed. I was made to believe that I was doing something that was as natural as going to the dentist for teeth cleaning."
"But there will come a time when you will regret not knowing the joy of raising your child. There is always a reminder of what kind of person your child would have been."
[Information taken from Prolife America]