Denise Hunnell, M.D. has a great article over at Human Life International's Truth & Charity Forum entitled, Unbreak My Heart: God's Mercy After Abortion. 
This past March, Emily Letts created a media firestorm by filming her abortion and posting her documentary as a testament to how wonderful abortion could be. In a follow-up article in Cosmopolitan, she gushes about her abortion as a positive and even joyous experience. This portrayal stuns all who value life from the moment of conception and prompted understandable outrage. However, it is important to remember that Emily Letts is only twenty-five and still has a lot of life experiences ahead of her. It is not surprising that right now she feels the need to gloss over the harsh reality that she killed her unborn child and pretend that abortion is actually a good thing. Her perception may be very different in a few years.
Just ask the women involved in the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. They offer heart-wrenching testimonies of problems with subsequent infertility, difficulty forming relationships, depression, substance abuse, low self-esteem, overwhelming guilt and many other painful sequelae to abortion.
Singer Toni Braxton is among the recent voices to express regret and remorse over an abortion. In her memoir, Unbreak My Heart, she talks about how she found out she was pregnant while she was undergoing intensive therapy with isoretinoin (commonly marketed as Accutane) for acne. She was advised to get an abortion because of the potential for serious and even fatal fetal malformations as a result of the use of isoretinoin. She admits that even if she had not been on the medication she probably would have gotten the abortion because it was not a convenient time for her to be pregnant, but the risk of birth defects made the decision seem justified. However, afterwards she was wracked with guilt. She attributed everything from her own health issues with Lupus to her parents’ divorce as a consequence of her abortion. She subsequently had two sons, the youngest of whom is autistic. She openly wonders if her son’s autism is a punishment from God for her abortion
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