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Sharon
Ontario,
Canada
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Thirty-eight years ago, I had an abortion. The local health clinic granted me and my husband a fully-funded abortion on the grounds of low family income and failed contraception. A general anesthetic was administered. I have almost no memory of the procedure that took the life of our second child. The marriage, too, ended.
Three years later, now a single parent with a five-year-old daughter, I again found myself pregnant. Our future looked bleak and uncertain, but the father of this unborn child promised never to see me again if I aborted our child. One hour before my appointment with the abortionist, I decided against this second abortion. The hospital's abortionist tried shaming and ridiculing me into re-scheduling, but Julie was born seven months later.
Julie's father and I went on to have four more children and eventually married. However, every pregnancy thereafter was plagued with complications related to my previous abortion. First, we experienced two premature deliveries through cesarean section. Then, during the pregnancies which followed, I was prescribed special medication to prevent going into premature labor once again. Our first son was born two and one half months premature and weighed three pounds at birth. He was very sick. The cause of his complications was placenta previa, a condition brought on by previous abortion in which the placenta blocks the birth canal. No medical staff had informed me years earlier that abortion jeopardizes future pregnancies.
When I ended the life of my unborn child, I was lost and troubled, with little or no concept of my God-given dignity as a human being. Because of the out-pouring of God's unconditional love and mercy, I've experienced tremendous healing and a total change of outlook and values. Today I am grateful for life and sorry for ever having taken it. I am convinced that there is never any possible good reason for the taking of innocent human life through abortion.
In the 1950's when, as a child of nine years, I witnessed the horror of the holocaust images flooding our television—the mass graves of millions of human beings, I wondered why no one spoke up and tried to end it. That's why I'm here today. I deeply regret that I have been part of this holocaust against the unborn and I promise that I will be silent no more.
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