Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

"Today, I stood across the street with my “I regret lost fatherhood”
sign, and my friend Frances held her “I regret my abortion” sign (our
abortions are not related). It is traumatic to watch the misery parade
of young women being “escorted” to the clinics with their boyfriends
who will soon be gone out of their lives.

A 17 year old girl approached us after sitting nearby for about an
hour watching us. She had tattoos all over her arms, and on her chest.
She had two lip rings and clothing that exposed more of her body than
was covered up. She was very pretty underneath her Goth eyeliner, and
there was a glimmer of the innocence she had lost. She defiantly asked
“Are you guys paid to be here?” I said “No, I’m here on my own time,
for no money and no other reason than to share my experience with
abortion.” She said “I had an abortion last year…sometimes people can’t
go through with a pregnancy, and I’d never tell someone what to do.”

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