Never Abandoned

Sheri OH, United States

"Hurting and still scared, I felt very abandoned and alone because I had no one to talk to about the experience.  Those I tried to talk to just laughed at me and pretended like it didn’t happen...Years went by living in denial and suppression, and depression and bi-polar conditions took control of my life."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Attended Healing Program - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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God Does Forgive

Sandi MI, United States

With her marriage in trouble, Sandi starts seeing a counselor.  But she discovers that her past history of hurt and troubled relationships stems from her two abortions earlier in her life.

Testimony Types - Multiple Abortions - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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Not the Answer

Kathleen VA, United States

"The older I became, the more I began to notice that being around pregnant women made me angry, yet I never understood why!  The sight of a child running and playing on the beach would make me feel empty inside. My heart had a hole the size of the Grand Canyon in it from the effects of those abortions, yet I could not connect the dots."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Abortion and Substance Abuse - Abortion and Suicide - Attended Healing Program - Multiple Abortions - Teen Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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The Worst Mistake

Solome NY, United States

"I was weeping and screaming, but nothing could turn back time. I felt like a part of me died. I felt angry. I felt guilty. I felt like my world was coming to an end...It was the most beautiful thing I ever created, and I destroyed it."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Physical Problems After Abortion - RU486 - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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The Wrong Choice

Dianne NY, United States

"To all of you who have lived with the unspoken after effects of abortion, it is time to unite. It is time to speak for our children.  It is time to make them proud of us."

Testimony Type - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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If I Could Redo Everything

Lori IL, United States

"I am so unhappy with this decision, and I wish I could redo everything. That is why I am silent no more. If my story can help just one other woman avoid making the same mistake I did, then I will be very happy."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Substance Abuse - First trimester - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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The War on Women

Janet CA, United States

"It was very clinical and efficient. No questions about my feelings were asked nor was I told of any potential long term emotional or physical effects..I became very promiscuous, abused alcohol, developed depression, and had trouble relating to others."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Abortion and Substance Abuse - Attended Healing Program - Teen Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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The First Step

Melissa MD, United States

"For seven years I've not allowed myself to think about it. I've blocked it out so that I wouldn't hate myself for my decision. I still haven't fully forgiven myself, although the more I speak about it, the more healing I find."

Testimony Types - Second trimester - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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To Help Others

Jose NLI, Netherlands

After returning to her childhood faith, Jose also begins to grieve the children she aborted and to find healing through Christ

Testimony Types - Multiple Abortions - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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Feeling Whole

Tammi PA, United States

"Regardless of my outward appearance, I'd personally given up the hope of ever feeling whole. I constantly battled rage and self-loathing.  I'd suppressed the memories of my abortion so deep, yet the reality of them was evident in how I lived my self-destructive life."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Abortion and Substance Abuse - Attended Healing Program - Multiple Abortions - Physical Problems After Abortion - RU486 - Teen Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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I Cannot Keep My Story to Myself

Thereasa TX, United States

"I have been feeling more and more that I cannot keep my story to myself.  God has been calling me to use my pain and experience to help those who are struggling with making the same choice I did.  If I can help persuade other women and men to make better choices,  then I can be silent no more."

Testimony Types - Attended Healing Program - First trimester - Rape and Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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I Regret Ever Going

Megan NC, United States

"I have always thought that the child I aborted was a son. I am blessed with three girls and would love to have a son. I wish I would have done it on my own and went on with the pregnancy."

Testimony Types - First trimester - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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A Child is a Gift

Priscilla TX, United States

"We were created in God's eyes for a purpose and plan. When a life is taken, it is devastating. One must realize a child is truly a gift from above and deserves life, just as we are alive and well."

Testimony Types - Attended Healing Program - First trimester - Multiple Abortions - Teen Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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Never Escape the Pain

Laney AL, United States

"I will never know if my babies were boys or girls--what they would have been like, what they would have liked doing...I hope my story will help someone, or keep someone from having an abortion. It was the worst thing I have ever done in my life--I will never escape the pain!"

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Abortion and Substance Abuse - First trimester - Multiple Abortions - Teen Abortion - Women Who Chose Life - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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Pardoned

Charlotte CA, United States

"I am a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. My appearance of normalcy deceptively masks the reality of my abortion experience. There is nothing normal about aborting one’s child...I am writing my true story to warn others who may be considering abortion to carefully consider not making the same fatal choice that I made over four decades ago."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Attended Healing Program - Couples - First trimester - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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I Regret Every Day

Martina FL, United States

"I regret every day the fateful decision to terminate the life of my child. I had multiple miscarriages during my seventeen years of marriage. I have no children."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Abortion and Suicide - Attended Healing Program - First trimester - Infertility - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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I Wish I Had Gone Back

Lucie FL, United States

"I made my unborn child suffer. I made myself suffer.  I don't know how I couldn't see that no one was going to win, that this wasn't a game. It's been four days, and I don't know how I can go four weeks or months or years."

Testimony Types - Couples - First trimester - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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A Gift of God

Karen WI, United States

"I cried constantly, but I kept my feelings secret.  No one helped me. No one understood. I felt so alone."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Attended Healing Program - Teen Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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I'll Never Hold Him

Freda CA, United States

"The regret and loneliness I feel now should never have to be felt by anyone else ever again. I truly wish I had listened to the people who said they regretted it. They were telling the truth."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Second trimester - Teen Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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I hid my feelings

Leanne OH, United States

"I would certainly not wish this experience upon anyone.  I hope that my story can help someone else make a different choice, one that is filled with love and compassion, not sorrow, guilt, and shame."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Attended Healing Program - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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J’ai ressenti une immense et profonde tristesse

Christine France, France

"J’ai décidé de rompre le silence parce que tout ce qu’on raconte sur l’avortement est mensonge: non ça n’aide pas les femmes, non, ce n’est jamais un solution, oui, c’est terrible ! Ca détruit un enfant et ses parents avec, en profondeur, et pour longtemps."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Attended Healing Program - Couples - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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Je ne pouvais pas en parler

Christian France, France

"J’ai décidé de rompre le silence pour que le monde sache que l’avortement touche aussi les hommes et profondément. Le fait de devenir un parent, père ou mère, n’a rien d’anodin.  On est fait pour donner la vie."

Testimony Types - Attended Healing Program - Couples - Fathers of Aborted Children - Multiple Abortions

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Je suis enfin en paix

Anne-Marie France, France

"J’ai donc décidé de rompre le silence pour aider toutes les femmes qui restent à souffrir seules en silence car l’avortement reste un tabou mais il faut que çà s’arrête."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - Attended Healing Program - Couples - Fetal anomaly - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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Le temps passe, pas la souffrance

Emeline ALR, France

Rompre le silence, pour moi c’est l’espoir de faire que d’autres le rompent aussi, de faire que d’autres femmes, hommes et enfants survivants n’aient pas à souffrir, de mettre fin à la répétition de la violence, à l’aveuglement ou au mensonge.

Testimony Types - Infertility - Women Who Chose Life - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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Dreaming of Holding My Baby

Valetina TX, United States

"As the time went on after the abortion, I felt depressed, ashamed, and regretful. I always dream holding my baby in my arms."

Testimony Types - Abortion and Depression - First trimester - Teen Abortion - Women Who Regret Their Abortions

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