I just wanted to write to say that I am a 37-year-old woman who had an abortion at the age of 15. My experience was horrible to say the least. It's really something you can't describe or put a mental image of in someone's mind who has not been through it. All I can say is it took years and years of self-destructive behavior and emotional and spiritual bondage to finally find some source of healing.
I thought it would help the pain I was suffering when I had my first child (that I got pregnant with on purpose at 17) trying to fill that empty void in my soul. But when I heard the cry of my brand new baby girl I immediately said, "OH MY GOD! I am a murderer!"
It's remarkable how one of the happiest times in your life can also be a time of grief and sadness. I mourned so for that baby that had been killed. I am writing this in hopes that well-intended but very misguided people who think its a "choice" realize it's not a choice once conception has occurred. God formed you in your mothers womb. That is NOT a "lump of cells," it is the beginning of LIFE; God's blueprint on a unique human being. There will never be another made just like that one that is lost. He has a plan a purpose for every human that is to be. WE intrude or interrupted GOD'S plan. He gave us free will it is up to us what we do with it. Yes, it is true our bodies can heal, it is our heart that bears the scar.
