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“The abuse I suffered as a child, the terrible choices I had made. I felt like a rosebud in hiding, that never blossomed.” Save the Storks connected with one woman that we will call Abigail about her road to healing after an abortion. “I always regretted it. It was from the beginning a devastating choice. […]
How pregnancy centers help women find post-abortive healing When Erin* walked into Women’s Choice Clinic in Bettendorf, IA this December, she was experiencing daily panic attacks. She had also just discovered she was pregnant. The staff at the clinic could tell she was stressed and downcast and not sure what to do about her recent pregnancy news. Jane**, the client advocate at Women’s Choice, sat […]
When I was 19 I found out I was pregnant. I had been with my boyfriend for about a year. He was living with his parents and I was living with my grandparents. My mom had been living with us for a while but had recently started using heroin again and was back on the […]
Society likes to think they are pro-woman, but from the wage gap to cultural stigmas, I think more and more we are realizing that’s not necessarily true. However, pregnancy resource centers often strive to fight this stigma by truly empowering women. This month, my friend Josh, a 20 something, male, Executive Director at a pregnancy resource […]
When we think about the devastating impact of abortion on our society, we often picture the babies that were never born. We imagine the moms and dads who never held their swaddled newborns. But what’s easy to forget is that these unborn babies would have grown up. In five or six years, they’d be stepping […]
“I’ve been a pregnancy center director for 20 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this, post-Roe,” says Lyndsey Sikes, Director of Life Choices Pregnancy Resource Center in Monroe, Louisiana. Nestled in the northeast corner of LA, West Carrol Parish brushes elbows with its neighbors in Arkansas and Mississippi. It’s as deep in the south […]
Sally Field, famous for her roles in Steel Magnolias, Forrest Gump, Mrs. Doubtfire, and as “Aunt May” in The Amazing Spider-Man series, recently opened up on her Instagram that in 1964, at the age of 17, she had an abortion. At the time, abortion was still illegal in the United States, and her doctor, a […]
Trigger Warning: This story includes references to satanic ritual abortion, rape, abuse, and murder.*The names of women, ministries, and states have been changed or undisclosed for safety purposes. Haley’s Story (trigger warning*) *The following paragraphs contain content that might trigger or upset some audiences. At 18, Haley had already been pregnant four times. Of her […]
During a time of separation from his first wife, Truett met and began seeing Lea, his wife, now of 46 years. After a season of being together, Lea discovered she was pregnant. In a moment of guilt and shame, they chose abortion. Soon after, they separated but came together after Truett and his first wife […]
The right to life has always been vital to our country’s constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment of our constitution prohibits the states from depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The Declaration of Independence also states: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with […]
Although abortion clinics present abortion as a quick and easy fix to end a woman’s pregnancy, this is far from the truth. Abortion is an invasive procedure that can leave a woman physically and emotionally affected for the rest of her life. The nature and circumstances of abortion cause women’s mental health to decline in […]
Governor Newsom, Proposition 1 will be detrimental to women in California who deserve not shame and discouragement, but support, empowerment and encouragement when facing an unplanned pregnancy. When an ad campaign, paid by California taxpayers, targets women—notably in areas near universities and where minorities reside—you are telling women they are not capable of carrying a […]
