abortion effects

One thing I know to be true is that abortion does nothing good for anyone. You may want to refute this fact but I would tell you that, from what I've seen (and I've seen plenty...), I believe you are wrong. Abortion negatively impacts and affects the baby, the mother, the father, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, potential classmates and friends, the local community, the world at large. It devastates lives spiritually, psychologically, emotionally and physically in many, many ways.

I consider myself a bit of an expert on this topic because of what I've heard from my clients at the center. Granted, most of my expertise is based on anecdotal evidence, but, trust me, it's sufficient. When one has heard the same things over and over again, the truth emerges. Over the years, I've talked with thousands of women who have had abortions. Only a tiny few (I can count them on one hand) have ever told me they were fine and stuck with their story upon my querying them further. I've always suspected that they built a wall so thick between themselves and their emotions that they could talk themselves into feeling fine. I believe, down the road, something will be triggered and they will realize they aren't fine. Most will present with "I'm fine" but the minute I ask a simple question like "How did that experience go for you?", they burst into tears or they tell me they will never really get over it or they will never do it again. That's not "fine" in my estimation. Women are walking around, years and years later, still wounded by what they did (and what was done to them...not all freely choose this action; many times they were coerced by a "loved one".)I was speaking with a woman the other day who had had an abortion 20 years ago. It was the only child she ever would have had. Blessedly, she said, she found Rachel's Vineyard and a way to work on being healed from this terrible wound at the core of her soul but she still thinks about what she did...A young man, about 30, came to meet with me about selling office supplies to me for the center. After we were done meeting, he asked what it was we do there. He was a tall, very large black man. I stood as straight as I could next to him, ready for a negative response from him, when I replied, "We help women decide not to have abortions." Guess what? He, all 250+ pounds of him, crumpled before me and started to cry, saying, "Ten years ago, my then girl friend had an abortion without my knowing it." He thanked me for the work we do. From that exchange, I learned that fathers of aborted babies can have terrible pain, too. It goes on and on...and I could certainly tell you more but you get the picture: abortion does nothing good for anyone.