My Views On Abortion

Abortion. Just to hear the words stirs up emotions in everyone. Everybody has an opinion on the subject. I used to hold a very neutral opinion about abortion. I used to think that abortion was acceptable in cases where the mothers life was in danger, incest, rape, or if there was a deformity in the baby. That was before I became educated on the truth.

When I was 9 years old, my mom announced with mixed emotions that she was pregnant. My younger sister and I were ecstatic at having a new sibling. I told all my friends at school that I was going to have a little brother or sister. But one week later, my mom told me through tears that she had a miscarriage. I knew it must have been hard on her because she cried every evening for months while doing the dinner dishes. My dad couldn't even console her. It was a hard time on all of us. My mom's pregnancy was soon forgotten and never brought up by anyone in the family.

Six years later I was in the middle of my sophomore year of high school. I found out that I was pregnant. I thought that my parents would want me to have an abortion. At the doctor's office, I was assured that abortion was the best option for me since I was so young. Fortunately, my parents didn't think so. They didn't even want me to think about that option. I had no idea why, but I would soon find out.

After I had my baby, my mom decided she wanted to volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center to help other teens, like myself, to choose life. When she came home from her first meeting, she looked like an emotional wreck. I could tell that something went terribly wrong. She began to describe the graphic videos she watched about unborn babies being killed through an abortion. She said that the unborn babies looked like real babies; they were formed so perfectly, even at just a few weeks after conception. It was a real eye-opening experience for her.

That night, thoughts raced through my mind while I was lying in bed. I wondered why my mom had been so affected by the videos and pictures she had seen that night. I wondered why my parents had refused to let me consider having an abortion when I was pregnant. Then I remembered something...my mom's pregnancy 7 years earlier. I wondered if maybe, just maybe, my mom had had an abortion. So I went into my parent's bedroom and asked her if she had an abortion rather than a miscarriage. She started sobbing and answered, "Yes, it was an abortion." I went back to my room in shock. My mom came to my room, sat on my bed and told me how things came to be. It was a very emotional time with hugs and tears.

One of my parent's closest friends, a nice family man, came over to our house one day when no one else was home except my mom and raped her. Two months later she found out that she was pregnant. My mom didn't want to turn the man into the police because he had a wife and four young children. My mom's doctor and my dad both agreed that having an abortion was the only option. If there ever was a time that abortion was justified, it was in this situation. Or so they thought. My mom went through with her abortion, although her heart told her all along that this was the wrong choice.

My mom and dad didn't say a word about the abortion to any family members or friends. They kept it a secret and tried to erase it from their memories. But my mom admits that it was never really erased from her memory. She never forgot about her unborn baby. She always asked herself the question, "What if I would have chosen a different path? What if I would have chosen life for my baby?"

My mom finished taking the training classes at the crisis pregnancy center and has been a post-abortion counselor since 1994. We have since found out that the doctor who performed the abortion on my mom has accepted the Lord as his Savior and canceled his contract with Planned Parenthood. He is now a volunteer pro-life counselor!

My mom never pressed charges against the man who raped her. She prayed for God's justice to reach him, and it did. Five years after he raped my mom, he was diagnosed with a rare blood disease. A few months after the diagnosis, he died.

My mom continued seeing her OB/GYN doctor, the doctor who recommended an abortion for me when I was pregnant. Because of my mom's living testimony of overcoming the pain of her abortion, and also of helping me to choose life, my mom's doctor no longer recommends abortions for her patients. As of this year, women are now referred to the crisis pregnancy center!

Being a woman in a crisis pregnancy is not a position anyone wants to be in. Pro-choice groups would like you to believe that abortion will solve all of your problems, but it won't. Even in cases of rape, where most everyone believes abortion is justified, my family knows better.If there would have been one person, just one, that would have been there to support my mom in her crisis pregnancy, I know she would have had the strength to choose life. I could have had a little sister. If there is anyone you know going through a crisis pregnancy, I ask you to please support them and encourage them no matter what the circumstances are behind their pregnancy. That unborn baby is created in the image of God and will serve a purpose for the Lord.

I have seen the pain that abortion brings. My mom is longing for the day that she will be reunited in Heaven with the baby she chose to abort. She has been forgiven and set free, but there will always be a scar on her heart. If my mom wouldn't have had her abortion, she would not fully understand the depth of its pain, and therefore she would have encouraged me to abort my child. But praises to God, Andy is here today because of her traumatic experience. My mom's testimony has not been for nothing! The Lord knew what He was doing all along. When my mom made the wrong decision and was there on that abortion table crying, Jesus was up in Heaven crying for her loss as well. He was ready to welcome my mom's baby into His loving arms. One day in Heaven, our family will be complete. And my mom will be able to hold all of her children and weep tears of happiness. God used my mom's abortion to bring glory to His name! He has brought my whole family into a personal relationship with Him!

My prayer now is that abortion will be exposed for what it is and what it does to women, their unborn babies, and the rest of their families. I pray that America will open its eyes to the sin of abortion and reject it completely and forever!