From the time of the abortion, I felt like a caged bird. Caged by silence, guilt and shame. I realized that something about it was terribly wrong. "My body, myself" brought me no comfort. I had chosen the death of my child; that did not seem natural or normal.
I had completely bought into the “girl power” propaganda being fed to me constantly by the magazines I was reading, and the media I was watching and listening to. In 1992 there was no internet to search for truth, you believed what you heard and you assumed that everyone had your best interest in mind when they spoke.
Lots of encouragement to get the abortion and not offering any desirable alternative options. They only mentioned you could give the baby up for adoption or keep the child in one sentence. Most of the interview was telling me how “I’m making the right choice to abort”.
And then I got pregnant. I used contraception and I got pregnant. I arranged my own abortion. I felt I was doing the right thing for the world, my parents, and me. Annette's testimony from the 2022 March for Life in Ottawa.
I placed my trust in a doctor I found and the abortion took place in a major hospital, under anesthetic. All the people involved, including myself, played our part in this procedure, to get it over and done with. Julia's testimony from the 2022 March for Life in Ottawa.
At the age of 16, I signed a consent to have an abortion. I remember only bits and pieces of that traumatic experience. Many years have passed and the majority of my memories remain completely repressed. Dale's testimony from the 2022 March for Life in Ottawa.
I AM a woman who was the victim of date rape at the age of 15. I AM a woman who remembers the fear, loneliness, shame and despair of that teenage girl who reached out to an abortion help line to gather information. Angelina's testimony from the 2022 March for Life in Ottawa.
This year marks 20 years since courageous mothers and fathers who lost their children to abortion have joined me here on Parliament Hill to talk about a “choice” that robbed us of our children - the children we will never forget. Angelina's testimony from the 2024 March for Life in Ottawa.
I still mourn my unborn children and it pains me to imagine what they experienced as doctors and their diabolical machines tore them apart. I had chosen to use violence as birth control and my children paid the price. Melody's testimony from the 2024 March for Life in Ottawa.
But when I took my wife for a normal prenatal checkup later in the pregnancy, the doctor did a test that indicated our baby would have Down syndrome. The doctor suggested abortion and told us we had to decide that day, as the cutoff for legal abortion was imminent. Kevin's testimony from the 2024 March for Life in Ottawa.
I was not married, so I strongly considered abortion. My boyfriend left the decision to me. Abortion was my choice. Julia's testimony from the 2024 March for Life in Ottawa.
The pro-abortion doctor I turned to told me that at 9 weeks, my baby was little more than a sprouted wheat seed. That was a lie, and she knew it. Elaine's testimony from the 2024 March for Life in Ottawa.