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"What I did was wrong. Not knowing what my child will look like eats a part of me every day. I don't cry, I can't cry because its too late. I made that choice and now this is the torment I live with day after day. I will regret that decision for the rest of my life. I will never be the same person again. I have changed. If I could turn back the hands of time I would have NEVER had that ABORTION. I killed my own child...an innocent child and I hate my self for it. I wish someone could take this pain away from me...but the truth is no-one can. This life is a test, and I failed it. I see myself as a murderer. a murderer who doesn't kill evil people...a murderer who kills innocent lives....a baby's life. Thats what I'll see for the rest of my life." Zara.

"Last month I made the worst mistake of my life. I had always been pro-choice, but I never thought I would have an abortion. I felt so alone. The doctors were in such a rush to get things done, and everyone was so robotic. I remember sitting in the waiting room when they called my name and I took this deep breath, and told my baby goodbye. I prayed that he/she would forgive me. The pain was horrible. All I could do was cry. I felt so empty. My boyfriend left that day and I havent seen him since. I still cry myself to sleep. I know the impact of having on abortion, and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do." Ashley

"I was eighteen when I had my abortion. For four years I was in constant torment, pain, grief, guilt, denial, self hatred, anguish, you name it, I felt it. I let bad things happen to me, even caused some of them. I felt I deserved it. Everything changed this April. I met a friend who told me there was nothing I could do to make him stop loving me. He told me he already knew about the abortion. When I told him how sorry I was He told me that he forgave me. He even helped me to forgive myself. This friend asked me to tell you what happened to me and then asked me to introduce you to him. I would like for you to meet my friend. His name is Jesus. MOAC. "...He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." I Jn. 1:9.

"I was fifteen and pregnant. Since my mother had threatened to kick me out if that happened, I used my savings to get an abortion. I wish my mom had taught me that sex was for marriage only, rather than that sex was for someone you love. I thought that if I had sex with the man, he would love me. Boy was I wrong!! I think about the baby I lost, and wish I knew if it was a boy or a girl. They showed me the fetus. I was still woozy, but I remember it. They just used a vacuum to suck it out. I now have two beautiful, healthy children whom I cherish, but I will always wonder about the child who lives only in my heart." Jennifer.

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My Experience With Abortion (Pastor R. James Shupp)

I had one of those really strange days several years ago.  It’s the kind of day that changes you before you’ve really had time to process what is happening.  It all began with a knock on my office door.  As I opened it there stood my mother weeping like I had never seen before.
"Mom,” I said, “what is wrong?”  I really couldn’t imagine what had happened, or what was on her mind that would compel her to stand at my office door weeping uncontrollably.  “Son,” she cried, “I have something very important that I need to tell you.”

“When I was fifteen and living in Jackson, Tennessee, I had a boyfriend named Tommy.  He was tall and handsome and a year older than me.  One day he came over to the house and asked me if I wanted to go for a ride.  It wasn’t long before I realized he had been drinking.  He took me to a remote location, stopped the vehicle and raped me.”

“My Mother was very sick with breast cancer.  A few months later she had surgery and I went to stay with my aunt and uncle While I was there I became sick. They took me to their doctor.  After a brief examination I heard the news that changed my life.” “I’ll tell you what the problem is young lady,” the doctor said.  “You are pregnant.”
“No one has to know about this,” the doctor said soothingly.  “You can have a normal life.  Let me take care of this for you.  Let me end this pregnancy.” With the kind of confidence that one achieves after having done the same thing many times, the physician walked over to the cabinets in the examination room and began removing some of the instruments from the shelves.  Holding them in his hands he approached me in a manner as if to begin the procedure without my permission.

“As the doctor drew near I heard a voice.  I was not a Christian at the time, but there was no mistaking to whom that voice belonged.  The voice was clear and commanding.  It echoed in my head.  'Stop Him!  This one belongs to me.'  I had never heard anything like that before," she cried, "not in church, not in my prayers, nowhere.  But it was the voice of God, without a doubt.” With a soft and gentle look my mother looked inside me and said, “Son, that was you.  I’ve always known that God had a special plan for you.  That day at age nineteen when you told me that God had called you into the ministry was no surprise to me.  I always knew.

“Son, I have been so embarrassed that I never told you this before.  I have lived in fear that you would find out and be angry with me.  I want you to know that I have always loved you and did everything within my power to protect you and give you all that you deserved.” I immediately got up from my chair and embraced my mother.  “Mom,” I said, “there is nothing to be ashamed of.  You gave me a chance to live.  You kept me alive.  I will forever be grateful to you.”

I have spent years thinking about this day and how it has changed me.  First, there was a time that I believed in abortion under certain extreme circumstances.  I believed that if a woman had been raped, a victim of incest, or her life was in danger, she had the right to an abortion with a clean conscience.  What I didn’t realize as I formed those beliefs in my younger years was this:  I had a moral position which called into question my own right to exist.  Had what I believed been applied to me, there would be no me.

Ronald Regan got it right when he said, “All the people in favor of abortion have already been born.”  Unless a person is prone to suicidal thoughts, they would never wish themselves to have been aborted in their mother’s womb.  Then how can anyone take such an action upon another that they do not wish for themselves?  The golden rule of Jesus Christ is generally considered to be the greatest ethical maxim ever given in all of human history.  It is simply this, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”  If a man or a woman cannot wish an abortion upon himself or herself, they have no right to make that decision for another.

Third, when I have preached on this subject many have attempted to get me to agree with them that abortion is a solution in some circumstances.  I’ve had people tell me that if their wife or daughter were raped by the village idiot, they would have no problem encouraging them tohave an abortion.  The problem here is in believing that creating a second problem solves the first problem.  One problem doesn’t take away another problem.  It just leaves you with two problems instead of one.  One plus one is still two.  Abortion is not the solution to rape.  I believe adoption is a pretty good solution to any pregnancy that is unwanted or unprepared for.  Adoption blesses a childless family.  God’s plan has always been to reverse a curse with a blessing.  It should be ours as well.

I believe the doctor who wanted to abort me was stopped so that I could share my story with you.