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Nightmares After My Abortions Drove Me to Become a Pro-Life Activist

by Karen Cross | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 7/4/13 12:39 PM

As the political director of National
Right to Life most people are used to hearing from me about elections
and political action. This year, in
addition to the political workshops I took part in at the 43rd Annual
National Right to Life convention in Dallas, I spoke at three workshops
where I shared the negative effects my abortions had on my life and my
family.

Who would have known the tragic choices I made as a young teenager to
abort two children would lead me to a journey in the Pro-Life Movement?

Nine
years after my first abortion, just three years after the second, I
began to have nightmares. I realized my abortions had nearly destroyed
my life. I learned that my problems with guilt, low self-esteem,
suicidal tendencies, nightmares, and alcohol are actually not uncommon
with women who have had abortions.

Wanting to help women who were experiencing unplanned pregnancies, I
got involved in the Movement. I met other women who had abortions. As we
shared our stories we began to discover that while each of us felt very
alone and guilt-ridden, our stories had something frightfully similar
in common: We were experiencing what is now referred to as Post-Abortion
Syndrome.

Fortunately, now there are post-abortion support groups
that provide a woman with a safe place where she can discover that she
is not alone and can deal with her grief, accept forgiveness, and
finally forgive herself and others.

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