Pages

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Post-Abortion Woman Tells her Story of Regret



Sarah Terzo
Live Action News

Chicks on the Right published an anonymous letter from a post-abortion woman. It is one more story showing how abortion scars women.

She was 18 when she became pregnant by her 22-year-old boyfriend. She remembers:
the stress, the grief, and the fear I felt when I looked down at that little plus sign.
She explains how she was afraid to tell her parents about her pregnancy:
I felt trapped. We were both raised in Catholic upper middle class families.… A secret abortion was the only option we could imagine. We felt it was a better option than facing our parents’ disappointed faces….
Too many teenagers are afraid to face their parents when they become pregnant. This is common in religious families, where the pressure on the pregnant minor to guard her secret can be extreme. Parents need to talk to their children about pregnancy and let them know that they can come to them if it happens. Christian family should not assume that their children will never make mistakes.

Continue reading →


Sarah Terzo is a pro-life author and creator of the clinicquotes.com website and the clinicquotes tumblr at http://clinicquotes.tumblr.com/.


No comments:

Post a Comment