Abortion. Most people don’t really like to talk about it because it is a controversial subject. It often makes people feel uncomfortable to share their views and convictions about it. I am uncomfortable writing about it. Honestly, I really struggled with whether or not to even write this article. It is painful and deeply personal. The more I thought and prayed however, I felt compelled to write about this subject on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. I share this with the hope of helping someone else avoid the same terrible decision I made many years ago and with the hope of being a voice of truth and honesty to a society that it is, in my opinion, very deceived about this issue.

To begin with, I haven’t always felt this way about abortion. I was probably like the majority of teenagers growing up in the 1980′s. I had no religious upbringing. We didn’t go to church and we didn’t discuss God or religious topics in our home. This didn’t bother me or concern me. And I liked it that way.

My parents divorced when I was 16. This simply allowed for me to get more involved in the party scene that I was already a part of in high school. I really had no regrets and felt no remorse for any of the really stupid things I was doing as a teenager. I was having fun and enjoying life. It was during this time I began to date a girl.

On a life changing day when I was 18, she called me and told me she was pregnant. I was the father. I was shocked and numb. I wasn’t ready to be a father. I didn’t even have a job. After discussing it we decided to have an abortion. At that time I didn’t see anything wrong with abortion. After all it was legal and it was just a medical procedure like any other I thought. I assumed it was kind of like having your appendix removed. That is what society had taught me.

I had to borrow the money from a friend to pay for the abortion which I believe was a couple of hundred dollars at that time. I took her to the abortion clinic and waited in the waiting room until the “procedure” was finished. After the doctor aborted the baby, I drove her back home. We did all of this without either of our parents awareness.

the rest: http://rodneyhunt.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/how-abortion-changed-my-life/