That has been our message and motto since 2005. Here is heartrending and eloquent testimony to that reality from a lady named Sasha Stone:
“I was the first generation to come of age after Roe V. Wade and in the wake of the 1970s feminist movement. I felt like I had an obligation to put myself first because that was now my right. Abortions would be like biological bulimia – pleasure now, get rid of the problem later. I was supposed to chase my dreams, to become something, to be someone, because being a wife and mother wasn’t enough.
That was the first lie and the most damaging. The idea that babies shouldn’t matter as much as our own happiness, that they are a burden and a thing to get rid of, was in direct contradiction to who we were as women. It is to deny biological reality. Sound familiar? One lie piled atop more lies for decades. How did we ever think that would work out well for us? Instead, it has driven us slowly insane.
We teach our young women to disconnect, to not care, to almost want to get pregnant just so they can have an abortion and post about it on social media. They celebrate it. They flaunt it.
It wasn’t until I had a child and held her in my arms, raised her, and watched her grow that I realized what a lie it all was and what a huge mistake I’d made living so carelessly and killing what would have been, could have been a life. It haunts me even now. You can’t outrun it.
My body somehow still remembers and asks, Where did they go? The answer is one I have to live with now: what I did and why I did it, and why I can’t forgive myself for it, and why I will live with regret for the rest of my life.”
Dear Ms. Stone, please know that you can be forgiven and can, someday forgive yourself. There are resources for post-abortive women, such as Project Rachel.