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It wasn’t until a few years ago that I even allowed “abortion” to enter my mind. After losing several unborn babies, it was too painful to have an opinion or even allow myself to go there. I was always afraid I would fall down at the feet of a woman entering an abortion clinic and beg her for her child. I would be the one on the evening news weeping uncontrollably and strapped to the women’s legs as she tried to walk toward the door. Then, one day, as I was sharing these thoughts with a group of women like me, I realized that it is a common thought shared by many women who have lost babies or suffer from infertility. How did we all cope? Silence…by being silent. We were all silent because our pain was easier kept in check this way. Next I had an honest conversation with a group of women who had abortions. Would you believe that ‘silence’ was the common denominator in that group too? So woman from both groups – those who have lost a baby and those who have had abortions had ‘silence’ in common. We also have in common delayed pain, regret, sadness, guilt, shame and heartbreak – it may come in different stages and different times – but the pain is very real and one day, it comes.
So as my eyes have been opened to abortion and I’ve realized the grime statistics and culture of death – I can be silent no more.
