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Eileen
Michigan,
United States
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Due to weather or travel problems, many of the people who planned on sharing their testimony at the March for Life in Washington DC in January 2016 were unable to attend. The testimony below is what they had planned on sharing at the event.
When I was sixteen my boyfriend pressured me to have an abortion. He took me to the clinic...when we got there I was shaking! I was sick, scared, confused, and thought the world revolved around me. The “counselor” said, “Take this drug, it will calm you down and don’t worry about it, honey, it’s not a baby, it’s just a clump of cells.”
The “doctor” came in and put on a rubber glove. He proceeded to sexually assault me. The clinic had thin walls, and I heard the door slam and him laugh out loud saying, “That’s the way I like to get them.” I went completely numb, except I could still feel the tears rolling down my face that soaked the paper sheet I was lying on.
I will never forget going back to school at just 16. A guy came up to me in the hallway, looked me in the eyes and said, “Eileen, What is wrong?” I said, “Nothing, why?” He said, “I don’t know, you look different.”
I was different! That abortion was the defining moment in my life where a downward spiral began. I started drinking and drugging to numb the pain.
Then after what seemed to be the worst thing that ever happened, my mother being killed by drunk driver when I was 23, I cried out to God. He sent the help I needed through the prayers of a holy saint, Father Solanus Casey, and a nun who had the gift of healing. Sr. Helen prayed with me, loved me, and helped me grieve the loss of my child.
The hardest part has been forgiving myself and renouncing the lies I had told myself for so long. Lies like, “You are worthless, you are stupid, you are weak, you are damaged goods."
During that time Jesus came to me and said, “I Still Love You!”
From the depths of my being I know abortion should not be legal.
That is why I am Silent No More.
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