Magaly

 

God protected me from having an abortion.� He gave me an awareness of the value of life.� However, I did suffer because of abortion.� When I was a teenager, my mother asked me to go with her to an abortion clinic.� This was in Cuba where abortion was very, very common.� And the same doctor that we saw at the clinic, had a private office where they did abortions, even though abortion on demand was not legal in Cuba at that time.� I begged my mother not to abort that child.� I did everything that I could.� I said to her, �I will raise it, mom!�� And I was only a teenager.� �I will raise it; I will take care of it for you.� And she smiled and she said, �What would people think?� Look how old you are already.��

 

And I remember sitting in that clinic, inside, and waiting for her to finish and just wondering what I could�ve done more.� I was not a Christian.� I didn�t have any pictures to show her.� I didn�t really know how bad abortion was.� In my heart I felt that it was something bad, but I never really knew until I saw the pictures.� And I never really knew for many years how much anger I had inside of me against my mother.� It took years.� We were never close after that.

 

I attempted suicide shortly after that.� And most of my life I felt that I really had to be the best at everything, because I really had to make it worthwhile that she allowed me to be born.� I later found out that she had aborted other children.� And every time we sat at the dinner table, I would look and think about those that were not there.� There�s tremendous pain when you�re a sibling and your mother aborts.� And I�m sure that there are many people out there that are feeling this pain.� I gave my testimony to a group of people last night, and several people came up to me and said something similar.�

 

I got involved in the pro-life movement and I have been in it for over thirty years.� And when I first saw the abortion pictures, when I saw the one about the DNC, the DNC baby that comes out in pieces, that�s the type of abortion that�s done in Cuba.� And a voice, an interior voice said to me, �That�s what your brother looked like when he was aborted.�� And I wrote a letter to the brother that I have not met, that I will meet in heaven.�

 

Brothers and sisters, abortion hurts.� For years I went through post-abortion syndrome.� I didn�t know that you could go through post-abortion syndrome if you haven�t had an abortion yourself, but I did.� I have a type of cancer that is very deadly.� And my sister lives in Fort Myers, my brother lives somewhere else.� I would�ve had a brother or sister to help me through this difficult time that I�m going through.� And I lost most of my family to abortion.� My mother had eight abortions.� And my mother realized what she had done when she saw one of my presentations.� It was a great pain for me to have her present.� I never told her how bad it was, but she came to one of my presentations, and she saw what abortion is, and she used to say to me, �If only I had known!� I love all my children.� If only someone had told me.� If only I had known.�� Till the day she died, she regretted her abortions.�

 

God bless you.