Women Who Faced Difficult Pregnancies Speak Out
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A Time to Listen Link - a good introduction to THIS page.
Most of these stories are from women who chose abortion. The last section is from women who chose life.
Memorial Pages
Women With Unwelcome Pregnancies Who Didn't Abort
Webrings
Being Pro-Life Will Not Always Protect You From Abortion...
My Personal Abortion Story
What Germaine Greer Calls a "Phony Debate"
I am Pro-Choice but...
Comments about a bumpersticker
The Critical Thing
Choicer Pessimism
On Men and Abortion
Don't Back Down
On Child Abuse and Abortion
To Those Considering Abortion
Choices
Reflections on Abortion
Links
Post Abortion Recovery Two
Abortion Regrets Yahoo group
Post Abortion Support Yahoo club
Aborted Women for Unborn Life Yahoo club
Abortion Support for Everyone Yahoo club
Regrets of Women Who Had an Abortion
Stories and Poems about Abortion
Multiple discussion boards for women hurting from abortion
Stories of Abortion Includes other stories as well.
Women Who've Had Abortions
How Men Feel After Abortion
Celebs Speak
The Grief of Abortion
Abortion They Say is a "Woman's Choice"
How My Abortion Affected Me
Tabitha
Life Stories autobiographical
Abortion they say is a women's choice
Diane
Jennifer
Precious
My Husband's Past Abortion Cost My Child Her Father
First Relief, Then Regret
Dani's Poem
A Better Choice
Cristy's Story
Consequences
There is Nothing I Regret More in My Life - Tom's Story
Shari Richards
Money Can't Buy Happiness Marcus's Story
Trying To Survive
My Abortion Experience
Song for the baby lost in the previous link
Two Senseless Deaths
Medical abortion with drugs instead of surgery
Forced to abort after incest
The Long Road to Healing
God Gave Me Another Chance
Before I Had Time to Think abortion after rape
Karen's Story
Looking for Advice in All the Wrong Places
Post Abortion Grief
Trying to Survive
I believed a lie, until...
Abortion Testimonies
When Six Months is a Lifetime
Cindy's Story
It Was Expected of Me
I Wouldn't Do It Again for Anything
Divine Mercy in My Soul
One Year Saturday
My Decision
My Boyfriend Hasn't Mentioned the Baby Once
He Gave Me an Ultimatim
This is What I Want. I Want Our Baby
Kim Mitchell
Not an Inconvenience, But a Crisis
No One Told Me I Could Cry
I Know God Loves Me and Forgives Me
Never Took the Time to Make the Right Decision
Mary Jo's Story
The tears have dried, but the emptiness remains
I Won't Ever Know My First Child
They Made it Sound So Simple...
Only in My Heart and Soul
The Darkest Day of My Life
A Daughter's Grief and a Family's Burden
My parents said I had no choice
I can't explain the pain to anyone
Jane Norton
...Then Life Goes on as Normal
What I need is the truth
A Poem for Joshua
I found my Saviour
Talk About Lowering Your Self-Esteem
Postscript
Released
My Parents Made Me Feel Guilty
In Whose Best Interest? Abortion in the case of Incest
I Wanted So Much to Have You and Love You
My Abortion Story
It hurt my body and ripped my heart out
Marion's story
Fear, Violence, and a Second Chance
Amazing Grace
Complete Restoration
Dana
Misinformed Consent
A Poem for Joshua
I still suffer today
I Shouldn't Have Had Sex
Whose Call Is It? The friend tells her story
Kathleen
I will always have the emptiness
The Choice
Why Didn't I Choose What I Really Wanted?
I would do it differently now
A Journey Through Abortion short version
Catherine's Story full version, pdf file, requires Adobe Acrobat (16 pages)
Don't do it!
God Has Completely Set Me Free
The Search For Meaning
Something Has Been Missing
Sally's Story
...Until I Decided To Keep One
A mother's grief
Clearing the Air about the Psychological Effects of Abortion
It Is Something I Am Not Proud Of
Karen's Story
Didn't Want to be Laughed At
The Choices We Make
I No Longer Believed in Love...
I Have Never Been So Alone
Can't Show the Pain
A Huge Emptiness
Kirsten's Story Victim of Choice
I Will Never Feel the Same Again
So much resentment
The Dream
God Has Been So Merciful to Me
A Small Grave
In God We Trust
A Simple Solution?
Fear and Forgiveness
They Said They Would Be There for Me
I Want Another Chance
The Long Road to Healing
Until Mommy Can One Day Hold You Again ...
A Mistake I Am Still Paying For
Multiply Abused
It Changed My Life Forever
I Was Hoping the Sermon Would Help
Spare Yourself the Hurt
Kirsten's Story
Open Letter to the Woman Walking into the Abortion Clinic
I Never Gave My Baby a Chance
No Babies in the Bars...
Giving Up Guilt
Why Can't I Just Go On?
Four Stories
I Begged for Mercy
A British Perspective
An Emptiness That Never Goes Away
You Never Fully Recover
I Broke Down and Started Crying
Before It's Too Late
Abortion is Not Therapeutic
I've Done Something I Can Never Take Back
It's Already Too Late
Dear Safe Haven
I Wish Someone Could Have Counseled Me
God Is Healing Me
A Back Alley Abortion and Mine
Mommy's Sorry
I'm So Sorry
I Didn't Want My Boyfriend to Leave Me
I Wish I Had More Information
Faith and Hope
Wouldn't Trade Either of Them
Letting Go
Personal Abortion Stories From New Zealand
Heather
The Cost of Abortion
Elizabeth
Won't Be Celebrating
Jan
MOAC
Mary
Lynda
Zara
Rita Sigler
My Parents Made Me Feel Guilty
Rose
No Longer Tormented
I Never Gave My Baby a Chance
Vicky Cooper
Just Let Her Know You Love Her a father speaks
Anguish of an Aborted Mother poem
The Sad Twist
So Many Reasons
Katya Ma: Tears for my baby
If I Had To Do It Over
To This Day, No Locket Have I Seen
God has been so merciful to me
Needed Someone to be There For Me
Even If...
My Abortion Experience...and How it Affected My Life
Part Two
Part Three
A Positive Story
It tears my heart out to link to this one. You see, I have a nephew with Down Syndrome, and so I know
this woman rejected joy.
My Story
About These Abortion Stories
Former Women of Choice Nine stories
Letters from Those Who Have Had Abortions
Aborted Women, Silent No More For further reading
Poetry
Women Who Abort: Their Reflections on the Unborn
Memorial Pages
sometimes with stories
In Memory of Desana
Women With Unwelcome Pregnancies Who Didn't Abort
My Body poem
Isaiah
link by the same author as the poem. The miracle she didn't know she needed.
Links
...told from various perspectives
Sharon's Story
Shellie's story
Spared from the Abortionist's Pail
When the Mother Has Been Raped
Cynthia
Melani's Story
Elexis
A Male's Point of View
True Stories Some aborted, some didn't.
Alannah
Other Options
Maxwell
Abortion Isn't For Everyone
Amadeus
Tiffany Conceived in rape.
Faith and Hope
Zuleika Couldn't do it a second time.
Jessica
Pressured, but didn't have an abortion
Summer
Karen saved by a poem.
Kay James
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