Postabortion woman would urge others to choose life
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A woman who had an abortion talks about the aftermath in the magazine America:
During the next 18 years I never
gave the abortion more than a moment’s thought. Hadn’t I made the phone
call as soon as I thought I might be pregnant? Hadn’t the nurse at the
clinic told me that at six weeks the fetus was a blob of muscle and
tissue, not a real person yet? Isn’t the discussion on when life begins
being argued in worldwide circles? Because I was so quick to act, the
abortion had little effect on me-until I became sober.
It was then I knew I had done
something terribly wrong. I couldn’t find a way to make amends for
taking a life that God wanted in this world. There was a saying in my
recovery group that if the program wasn’t working for you to look back
on your life and find something you didn’t think important at the time.
After almost two decades of prayer and meditation, living a good life
and making amends for harms done, something was still wrong with me. I
had a picture-perfect sobriety, yet all was not right. Could the quick
abortion in January 1973 when I was 27 be what I thought wasn’t
important? Well, maybe.
She went to confession 3 times
and confessed the abortion, but found no healing until the priest told
her to go to Rachel’s Vineyard retreat, which helped her.
If I were to speak to any woman
thinking about an abortion, I would put my arm around her and tell her
about my abrupt alienation from my husband, my alcoholism, my drug
addiction, the period during which I hated the church I had earlier
loved, the dark life of sin. Then I would urge her to choose life.
She named her aborted daughter Jane Marie.
Editor’s note. This appeared at clinicquotes.com.
Source: NRLC News
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