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"Those who plead for an extensive relaxation of the law [against abortion] have no idea of the very many cases where a woman who, during the first three months, makes a most impassioned appeal for her pregnancy to be 'finished,' later, when the baby is born, is thankful indeed that it was not killed while still an embryo. During my long years in practice I have had many a letter of the deepest gratitude for refusing to accede to an early appeal." A regular in the Pro Life Forum posted this question: "[A]re there any unplanned pregnancies that worked out, despite the odds against carrying to term, for you?" Here are some of the stories that this elicited, starting with Maria's own experience: I myself got pregnant at 20. My entire family of 9 siblings refused to speak to me unless I placed the child for adoption. The father of the baby swore he would contest and sue for custody if I did. I didn't have a job or a place to live and I was scared. Abortion was suggested by a few but I had enough education in the area of fetal development to know this was not just a blob of tissue. It looked like everyone had abandoned me.
I confided to my grandmother that I was pregnant. Now, Grandma is a very good and holy person. I had no idea what her life was like at first, so I didn't know if she would condemn me or welcome me. I just knew she had always loved me. Grandma took me in and gave me a place to live, food to eat and, most of all, loving support. She didn't place a condition on me to give the baby up for adoption either. Although this caused a huge division in my family at the time, within 5 months, it was resolved with the help of a sweet and kind priest who knew the whole family. By the time I gave birth to my daughter, my entire family fully supported me. It was, by no means, the easy path. But it was, by far, the best. I went on to a successful career and my daughter has bloomed into a beautiful woman. Although she is only 16, she is a freshman in college with aspirations of becoming a professional writer. Another woman had tried, with the help of friends, to do a self-induced abortion when she first learned that she was pregnant: "I became pregnant right out of Hi-school and only a few of my friends knew...they even helped me get some pills that would help me miscarriage..we didn't call it abortion...but it didn't work...
I even thot about taking poision that might have killed me, but I was to chicken for that..so then I thot about adoption, but Fonzie found out my plight even tho the baby was his..I had not told him..and I had moved about 120 miles away..so he found out and hunted me down..and we were married oh..about 4 months before I gave birth to my oldest daughter who is now married and has a daughter of her own..." Next page > More women tell their stories 1 A. Bourne, A Doctor's Creed: The Memoirs of a Gynecologist, London, 1963. Visit the RealChoice blog
Dr. Aleck Bourne, who in 1938 successfully fought the law against abortion in the UK1
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