I went to the March for Life in Washington DC. I didn’t think the day was really going to have a huge effect on me, only because I figured everything I was going to hear, I had already heard before. But there were one or two things that really stuck with me.
First of all, there were women and men there who regretted having their abortion, and the men who regretted losing fatherhood to abortion. And at first, I figured it was just women who didn’t want to have the baby so they gave it up. But there was one women who shared her story with everyone. Standing in front of the United States Supreme Court, she told the crowds of thousands of people how she was raped when she was much younger. She would have nightmares after the rape, and later found she was pregnant. She aborted the child. As the tears ran down her face, she proceeded to say that she hoped by aborting her child, it would take the memory of the rape away, and she wouldn’t have to live with it, but she soon found out that her biggest regret was giving up the child. “I would have rather kept my child now, knowing the regret I would be feeling for the next 13 years and beyond.” I honestly was so touched by this. You never really hear people talking about their abortions, or regretting their abortions years down the road. But yesterday, I heard many people come out and give their stories to us.
Amazing.
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