I fought against the abortion, and my father drove 9 hours to meet with the family of my child's mother. He tried to reason with her parents and even suggested that he and my mother would adopt the baby. But we were told there was nothing we could do, and the decision had been made.
During the abortion procedure, I experienced deep pain, shame, and guilt, knowing that what I was doing was wrong and also knowing that I could never undo it. I experienced pain no-one could have ever prepared me for. Being only 17 years old, I had never actually attended a doctor’s appointment without a parent present.
After my 3rd abortion, I was merely a shell of my former self. I was depressed, angry, hurting, and racked with guilt and shame.
I felt deceived and manipulated by Planned Parenthood. I just hate seeing women continuing to be deceived, that’s why I’m silent no more.
I remember walking into the clinic and hearing the abortion protestors that I had alternatives and to please not kill my baby. I walked into the clinic sobbing because I did not want to abort my baby. I wanted him/her so much.
The morning of the procedure I woke up nauseous, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted out of the situation I was in. All I could think to myself is that I was only about 8 weeks along and the baby wouldn't feel any pain.
So, here I am. Battle scarred. Truly brought low by the reality of a sinful nature. I pray to coordinate with all Godly men and women, to make hatred for the sin of murder so real, and love for God so profound… that we can say “thy will be done” no matter what challenges we face in pregnancy. Because it is our child.
When I was 18 and a senior in high school, I made some foolish choices that led to me getting pregnant. When my mom found out she became angry and decided that I would have an abortion.
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.