Despite what you may have been told, abortions are both complicated and traumatic.  Often there are intense physical and emotional costs. Here are some first-hand stories, some with the author’s email address.  If you have your own story to tell, please share it with us (see Yell at Us!). 

          In 1994, the unabashedly pro-choice Glamour magazine surveyed some 3,000 women who had undergone abortions. Overwhelmingly, respondents said that if prior to the procedure they had had any idea of how deeply they would come to regret it, they would have never gone through with it. For many of these women, who are often left alone to suffer the pain of abortion, cyberspace has become a safe haven to share, remember and grieve -- in the days, weeks, months and in some cases, 20 or more years after they exercise their "reproductive rights." 

Mothers' Stories...

My Story, by Kari

Now just 20, Kari H., shares the horror and pain of her [boyfriend coerced] 1999 abortion, her recovery from PASS, through Project Rachel, but that her abortion left her infertile for life 

Hello, my name is Kari and I have been visiting this site for several years now.  I come here and read everyone's stories and thought that I could share mine, hoping that it may someday save a baby's life. 

I was in the 10th grade, and met the "man" of my dreams.  He was wonderful, and we did everything together.  By the time we had been dating for a year, and I was in the 11th grade, I started to have this funny feeling.  I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but something was different about me.  I felt an all around change.  After thinking for a while, pregnancy had crossed my mind.  I blew it off though - thinking that because I was only 17 years old, I couldn't be pregnant, but that feeling kept coming back until one day my boyfriend took me to buy a pregnancy test.  continued....

Abortionists Stories...

Brenda Pratt Shafer, RN

In September, 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years or experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice," she didn’t think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:

"I stood at the doctor’s side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby’s heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby’s body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby’s body was moving. continued...

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