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Testimonies
This is a collection of abortion testimonies written by women and men in their own words. They describe the factors going into their decisions, their personal experience with abortion, and how it affected their lives. While not all women regret their abortions, these abortion stories reveal that many do. There are several risk factors identifying […]
By Mark Davis Pickup | 06/12/2019 My fifteen-year-old granddaughter is debating abortion at the public high school she attends. She has discovered a wall of pro-abortion feminism coming down on her like a ton of bricks. This evening she contacted her grandmother LaRee to ask if she could use LaRee’s and my abortion story in […]
By Sally Garneau I learned that I was pregnant at the age of eighteen, shortly after moving in with my boyfriend. Feeling scared and insecure, I didn’t know how a baby would fit into my future. Upon seeking counsel from friends and family, it seemed logical to consider abortion as an option. After all, I […]
Twenty years ago, I wish I had had an ally. Not someone who tells me that I messed up, that abortion is my only option and gives me a ride to the clinic. I wish I had had a friend to tell me that everything is going to be all right; that I don’t have […]
By Theresa Bonopartis I can certainly tell you what a coerced abortion feels like. I remember it as clearly as if it happened yesterday. I was a pregnant teenager kicked out of the house, isolated and alone. Nowhere to go, no one to help, no money, no job, nothing. I remember the desperation , feeling […]
Catherine of Abortion Alternative Information and Support writes: … I really wanted to keep the child. But I was very frightened, because I had been abandoned by all around [me] and because bringing a child into this world seemed such a huge responsibility — not for my sake but for the child’s. I tried, in […]
Note: The following is an excerpt from the book Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion. I remember the events surrounding my abortions clearly. There are some things that are so utterly terrible, so devastating, they never fade from the mind or heart. I idolized my boyfriend, whom I met when I was […]
Guest Opinion by Theresa Bonopartis Salon.com, an online magazine, recently published an article “Why Women Have Second Trimester Abortions” by Irin Carmon. As a woman who had a second trimester abortion I found it inaccurate and, to be frank, downright offensive. Ms. Carmon begins with the line, “Despite thumb sucking fetuses you see waved around […]
Note: This story is reprinted from the book Victims and Victors: Speaking Out About Their Pregnancies, Abortions and Children Resulting From Sexual Assault. When I was about 13, my stepfather started molesting me. It continued until I came forward with it when I was 16. At age 15, I became pregnant. No one knew but […]
LiveAction has posted the story of Jewels Green, a woman who underwent a coerced abortion at 17 and later spent several years working at an abortion facility in Pennsylvania. Here’s an excerpt: “My first baby would be 22 this week. “I was a 17-year-old drug-using high school drop-out, but when the lady wearing scrubs told […]
Comments from supporters of the Elliot Institute
Statement on North Carolina House Bill 854 Abortion – Woman’s Right to Know Act Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Martha W. Shuping, M.D. This statement is in support of HB 854. Thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of HB 854. My name is Martha Shuping. I’m a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry, fully […]
Reality Show Winner Shares Story of Unwanted Abortion The web site Unreality TV quotes an interview with Josie Gibson, a British reality star who revealed that she underwent an unwanted abortion after being coerced by her ex-boyfriend: “He waited until I was three months gone to tell me that he didn’t want it. I even […]
Women who have had abortions due to fetal anomalies often describe pressure from their doctors to abort and little time to make a decision. Many receive poor information — including outdated or overly negative information about their child’s condition, and little or no information on resources or about those have successfully parented children with the […]
12/9/2010 A woman testifying at a New Jersey Senate hearing about undergoing a coerced abortion was stopped from speaking after being told that she couldn’t talk about her experience with Planned Parenthood. Now she is sharing the story that she wasn’t allowed to tell at the hearing. Darlene Dunn was testifying at a budget hearing […]
Case Study: Linda G. In April of 1974, I became pregnant. I was seventeen, unmarried, and scared to death. My boyfriend, Bill, had wanted to marry me for some time, so when I found out I was pregnant, I said okay. I couldn’t bear the thought of having to tell my parents because I knew […]
A Need for Compassion Case Study: Susan S. I need your compassion, as do many other women like me. I am a post-abortion woman. At the age of 54, I am finally confronting the damage that three abortions have done to me. I was one of the lucky ones: I did not suffer any physical […]
So Grateful That I Lived Case Study: “Julia” I had my first abortion when I was 26 years old. I was married at the time to a successful chiropractor. We had two young children, a boy and a girl, ages four and two. You wouldn’t think I would be a candidate for an abortion; we […]
Finding Grace Khristey Walker I am the director of a crisis pregnancy center in Houston. I am also a post-abortive woman. I know this is not a big shocker, but I also know that there are many serving in this ministry who are still locked in silence and shame over their own abortions. When I […]
Letting God Use Me Case Study: “Andrea M.” I was in nursing school and not doing very well. I had decided to quit school and just work as a nursing assistant when I met the father of my baby. I came from an alcoholic family and I had been doing drugs and drinking, and had […]
A Bittersweet Healing Case Study – “Jane” It may be hard for some to believe, but it is comforting for me to know that Moses, King David, and St. Paul all started out as murderers. You can call me Jane. That’s not my real name. Extreme shame keeps me anonymous. I had an abortion when […]
“God Has Been Calling You” In 1982 I had an abortion. I wish I could say I was pressured into it by my family or by the father. But I wasn’t. My pressure was my fear and shame. For me abortion was the only option. To get through it, I clung to the belief that […]
Learning to Accept Healing Case Study: I was 14 years old, the middle child of nine, and lost in the confusion and shuffle of parents trying to raise four teenagers older than me during the 1970’s. I was accepted to a prestigious private high school, two city bus rides away from home. Going from the […]
