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How An Ultrasound Helped One Post-Abortive Young Woman Choose Life Leslie was in her late 20s and recently separated from her boyfriend when she found out she was pregnant. When she saw the positive pregnancy test, she scheduled an appointment at the local abortion clinic for the following week. She decided she wasn’t going to tell her boyfriend about the […]
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 […]
From abortion to teaching post-abortive healing When Victoria Robinson was in her 20s she had an abortion. That day at the clinic the doctor told her she wasn’t very far along, just 6-8 weeks, and her baby was a “clump of tissue” at that point. No harm, no foul. She says that no one at […]
How one woman uses her post-abortive past to give others a future “For over 27 years, this was a story I felt like I should bury.” Pam Daugherty said this to a room full of people at a pregnancy resource center banquet in Waller, Tex. “But we all have a story, and I want to […]
Mary saw the bus as she was driving home and decided to turn around and check it out. Without hesitation, she walked up and told us what a blessing we were to the women who might be pregnant in Huntington Beach. She wasn’t pregnant she assured the staff. She just wanted to talk. Horizon Pregnancy […]
Years before my son, I chose abortion. It was my choice. Maybe because of where I was at in life. Maybe because I was too ashamed to carry a child at the time. Maybe because I didn’t know more. I wish I had known more. I knew I wanted abortion, but even more I knew […]
I was 17 when I discovered I was pregnant. I’d been dating a boy for several months and I can look back now and know that I was truly in love with him. My sense of time is off and I cannot remember how much time elapsed from the time that I found out that […]
Live Action News–“Although I have found freedom and forgiveness, the regret and grief are lifelong, because my first child deserved life. She deserved to live and have her mother protect her,” Carla says. “And I would give anything to go back there… to save her life and mine. But I can’t.” On September 5, 1990, […]
I was 15-years-old, and so afraid for my mother to find out. I was sure she would tell me that I had to have an abortion. And I was right. When she found out, she backed me into a corner and made me feel as if I had no choice. I begged to give the […]
I went in circles deciding if I wanted to share the biggest heartache I’ve ever had. See some decisions we regret almost instantly, and some it takes growing up and maturing to realize those choices are permanently damaging. And unlike the decisions I have made in the past, I prayed for God to lead my […]
Live Action News — Mark Gietzen of the Kansas Coalition for Life has reported via Facebook that a woman who had an abortion at Planned Parenthood in Kansas committed suicide hours after the abortion was completed. The deaths of mother and child took place in late June 2017. This double tragedy serves as a heartbreaking […]
This true story was submitted to us via social media by Cheryle. I was 17 when I discovered I was pregnant. I’d been dating a boy for several months and I can look back now and know that I was truly in love with him. My sense of time is off and I cannot remember how […]
