THE LIES I BELIEVED

My Mother pressured me to abort my first baby at the age of 16... I thought that if it was okay with my Mother, and okay with the Government, and the doctors were doing it, that it must be okay...it was NOT!

Later in my twenties, again pregnant, my boyfriend went into a rage and demanded that I have an abortion. When I asked my doctor what was developed, he put a dot on a page, and told me it was "just a clump of tissue," I was about 8-9 weeks pregnant at the time, he lied to me. Years later I learned that my babies had a beating heart by 3 weeks, arms, legs, fingers and toes by 8 weeks!

They said it was a "safe" procedure too...but I got an infection, damaged cervix and badly scarred uterus. This was irreparable damage that affected my fertility! When I wanted to have children, I was only able to have one, thank God...a son. I had to have an emergency c-section because my cervix was incompetent and would not dilate! I was never able to have any more children...he was a miracle! I love being a MOTHER! It is the greatest gift on earth. Tragically, some of my friends aborted the ONLY child they could ever have, and live with that horrible reality.

For years I suffered with deep sorrow, grief, regret and remorse knowing I had my own babies killed. I turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain and shame of abortion for years. It affected my parenting, because my son is alive, but they aren't, it affected my self esteem and worth.

Although difficult, for the last 20 years I have been speaking out and declaring that abortion is a wrong and not a right...that it HURTS women physically and emotionally and kills babies created in the image of God. Abortion is really child sacrifice and should be unthinkable...a person is a person, no matter how small! www.canadasilentnomore.com