January 05, 2009

RESEARCH

A 1993 study showed that 81% of women who elect abortion have high risk of experiencing regret based insufficient understanding of what the abortion procedure was actually accomplishing. 1 When circumstances are difficult and strained, most do not think of the unseen pregnancy in terms of fetal development. Understanding of the humanity of the unborn child can be a rude awakening after such an irreversible decision.   Even when the case population is of those who would be expected to justify their abortions, we find a high rate of women admitting to the “wrongness” of abortion.   A 1981 opinion poll of 1,105 women commissioned by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (a pro-choice research organization funded by Planned Parenthood) found that 24% of these women considered the procedure “morally wrong”. 2   A more recent Los Angeles Times poll found that a majority of Americans favored making abortion illegal with few exceptions (41%) or totally illegal (12%). 3

 

1 Sachdev, Paul, 1993, Abortion and Unmarried Women

 

2 Medical World News, March 9, 1987

 

3 Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2005

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SHAWNA

 I was 16 years old  when I aborted my son.  I thought I was doing the right thing under the circumstances. I was under the misguided assumption that my son was not formed yet. He was a human being who had a right to live, but I didn't understand that.    

 

Immediately after the abortion, I asked the abortionist if I could see what he taken from me. Without hesitation the attendant brought the remains to me literally on a silver platter. My son was mutilated and dismembered. Suddenly I realized that what I thought was the right thing to do was actually a crime against humanity.  

 

 After 15 years I have come to the conclusion that abortion is NEVER justifiable, right, or good. If I had known what my son looked like at his gestational age, I would have come to the understanding that he was a human being much sooner, and I would not have aborted him.  

How Recovery Helped

 The recovery process has helped me to understand that birth conrol begins long before I find myself scared, alone, and pregnant.  Recovery reintroduced me to a core value system based on the Word of God.  I have learned that abortion is against God's law. 

Although abortion is legal and widely embraced, it is never accepatable to take a child's life regardless of the circumstances.  God gives life and should be the only one to take a life.  Recovery brought the light of truth into my life so that I will never  go that way again.   My life is renewed by TRUTH. 

The greatest part of the recovery is that the men and women are  reaching out from their own loss, and turning their tragedy into  triumph.  Abortion recovery is "birthed" from God, because those who have been forgiven of much love much.  Love is what healed me.

 

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