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The following are testimonies of men and women who have experienced abortion. I was 19. I was pregnant and scared. My boyfriend and his family told me to get an abortion. At the abortion facility, I asked the woman about the baby's stage of development. "It's only a blob of tissue," she said. The woman told me I would feel "minor" discomfort." Later, I gripped for my life, and felt the sting of death in the most tender part of my body as my baby was sucked out of me with a vacuum device. I lived in denial for many years, and did not realize to what extent the abortion had affected me. I experienced extreme anxiety over the vacuum cleaner, which I later realized was because it reminded me of the suction from the abortion. I also became overly protective of my young son and feared he might die. I suffered years of depression, especially during a certain time of the year. Later I realized my depression came at the anniversary of the abortion, and again at what would be the birthday of my baby. Even though I tried to forget, my body did not forget the trauma.
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