Testimonies About an Experience with Abortion
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 the women who are most likely to have more severe regrets, grief, and other emotional trauma after an abortion.
Here are three of the most common risk factors you will see in women’s stories. First, feeling pressured to agree to an unwanted abortion by others or difficult circumstances. Second, aborting in violation one’s own moral beliefs against abortion. Third, feeling an emotionally attached to one’s pregnancy, especially when their is an active desire for children in the future.
- Testimonies About an Experience with Abortion
- What Is the True Extent of Abortion’s Tragedy?
- Testimony: The “Choice”
- “I wish I’d had a friend tell me …”
- “I Can Tell You What a Coerced Abortion is Like …”
- “I was very frightened … not for my sake but for the child’s.”
- So Much of Me Died: Mary’s Story
- Getting It All Wrong on Second-Trimester Abortions
- Abortion and Sexual Abuse: One Woman’s Story
- Former Abortion Facility Worker Tells Her Story
- Why I Support the Elliot Institute, and Why You Should, Too
- Abortionists and the APA Conspire to Misinform Women
- “Don’t Be Forced Into Anything”
- Women Share Their Stories of Abortion After Prenatal Testing
- Woman Silenced at New Jersey Senate Hearing Shares Her Story
- Testimony: “Misinformed” Consent
- A Need for Compassion – Testimony
- So Grateful That I Lived – Testimony
- Finding Grace – Testimony
- Letting God Use Me -testimony
- A Bitter Sweet Healing – Testimony
- God Has Been Calling You – Testimony
- Learning to Accept Healing – Testimony
- One Man’s Story
- Learning to Trust – Testimony
- On the Road to Healing
- Finding Real Peace – Testimony
- Trying to Survive
- Amazing Grace – Testimony
- In the Vineyard – Testimony
- Testimonies: Chapter 7 of The Jericho Plan
- Looking For Advice in All the Wrong Places
- Before I Had Time to Think: Case study of rape and abortion
- When the Doll Breaks — Post-Abortion Reaction
- Trying to Survive By Judith Evans
- Testimonies
- Women Who Abort: Their Reflections on the Unborn
- Accomplices in Incest : Case Study
- Two Senseless Deaths: The Long Road to Recovery
- Released – Testimony
- The Benediction of Kate Michelman: A Case Study on Coping With Post-Abortion Trauma
- No One Told Me I Could Cry: Tiffany’s Story
- The Search for Meaning – A Testimony
- Never Again – Testimony
- Consequences – Testimony
- Just Let Her Know You Love Her – A Poem
- In God We Trust – Testimony
- The Dream – Testimony
- Fear and Forgiveness – Testimony
- Two Senseless Deaths: The Long Road to Recovery – Testimony
- Before I Had Time to Think – Testimony
- Accomplices in Incest – Testimony
Related Information
- Silent No More — a searchable data base of abortion testimonies
- Abortion Stories — Personal testimonies from women (and men) who have gone through an abortion
- Tips and Resources for Post-Abortion Healing
- Abortion’s Mental Health Risks
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I need advice. My husband and I are separated. Not by my choice. I wanted to work things out with him but he refused. We were together in December. I found out in January that I’m pregnant. I told him and he was not happy. Although he thinks that this child isn’t his… (it is his child) he has never told me to get an abortion.
However, I just turned 40..I’m extremely high risk…and I’m 12 weeks pregnant. I never thought that I would ever ever consider abortion, but I am thinking very strongly about it! I am scared, alone, and I don’t want to have a baby in this type of situation. Typing this I sound selfish. We have a 14 year old son and we had a daughter that was born at 22 weeks and passed away. I just don’t think I can do this.
I’m lonely and scared and he doesn’t care at all. I have scheduled my phone appointment with planned parenthood. I don’t know if I will go through with this or not. But I’m considering it and that makes me so sad but relieved at the same time! Help I need advice!
Dear Chrissy,
In short, don’t have an abortion. You will regret it your entire life.
First, you may be underestimating your husbands willingness to reconcile, especially in light of your new child. He may not be excited about it, but it must surely weigh on his sense of responsibility. Is he a good father to your son? Was he also grieved by the loss of your daughter?
Also, you wrote that because you are 40 you are at “extremely high risk.” That’s an overstatement. There are more risks of complications for women over 35, but they are certainly not “extremely high” risks.
By contrast, the risks of abortion are high…at any stage, especially after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Please read our pages on both the mental health risks of abortion and the physical risks of abortion. And don’t trust Planned Parenthood, which is committed to downplaying the risks of abortion at every turn.
Since emotional complications are more common than physical complications, I would especially encourage you to look at the risk factors which studies have identified that predict which women will have the most emotional difficulties following an abortion. As you will notice, a prior abortion (which means a prior miscarriage or induced abortion) is a risk factor. The fact that you mentioned and still think about the daughter that you lost is a risk factor. I think it highly likely you would grieve even more, and perhaps be much harder on yourself, if you lost another child…this time by choice.
Please don’t go through with the abortion.
Please let us help you. Write again or call us at 217-525-8202
You are in my prayers.
I was married for 25 years now going through divorce I had to fight to get access to my 2 children! But during court case I found out that during our marriage when my wife had told me that she had a miscarriage? She had a abortion and never told me all the years together? Now she is telling my children how bad I am! Should I tell my 14 year old daughter the truth as I am being made out as the bad one who caused the separation? Help so confused on what to do.
Dear Jim,
I’m sorry to hear about your divorce, how your child was secretly aborted, and also how during the time of this divorce she is trying to make you look like the bad guy to justify her decision.
It’s rough, but you should not be pulled into the “get even” and “make her look bad” pattern. It won’t help your daughter, and at worse you will hurt your daughters perception of both her mother and you (for telling her). Maybe when she is 30 and trying to figure out her mother, you could explain how the abortion may have affected her. But now is not the time.
Don’t tear her down. Encourage your kids to respect her. But at the same time, you can remind your kids that some of the things she says are not true, not complete, and should not be taken at face value because people who are hurting will often try to shift all the blame to others. Tell them you refuse to play the same game. You’re not going to tear down their mother, but you would also ask them not to believe her when she tries to tear you down. Period. Stay on the high road. In the long run, she is hurting herself by trying to diminish you in front of your kids. They will eventually see through it and value your decision to not tear her down, especially during this difficult time for all of you.
You are all in my prayers.