Can't Forgive Myself

  Melisa
Guatemala,  Guatemala
 
  I’m from Guatemala.  When I got pregnant, I was taking a medication that is totally prohibited during pregnancy because cause serious birth defects.  I was afraid of having a baby with hydrocephaleus or microcephaleus, with heart defects, or retarded.  I was afraid of having a child with those defects.

I feel badly about it, I really think that even when most women decided the same I did... (86%).  I regret my abortion.  I can’t find a way to forgive myself!

Since my abortion I haven’t been the same.  I just think that I didn’t want my baby to suffer... but it wasn’t my decision…How could I be such a coward?

   
   
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