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From author Melinda Tankard Reist, who interviewed many postabortion women: “Women often spoke of being unable to get satisfactory help for their grief from clinics or organizations connected with abortion. Karleen said that when she sought help at a women’s counseling clinic in Sydney she was told it was wrong of her to speak badly of her abortion experience. Kara, from Queensland, told of posting her personal abortion story on an Internet discussion of abortion. She was told to “get lost” – her story wasn’t welcome….If a woman is depressed after an abortion, she is made to feel it’s her...

My early 1980′s abortion left me sterile, traumatized and heartbroken. Allow me to elaborate…. WARNING: free of euphemisms and candy-coating. So much flowery rhetoric to describe the most sinister of acts… So I will go there, penetrate the 10 feet thick wall of lies and denial that I lived in, and go to the truth. George Orwell said : “Speaking truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” As a young woman, I got pregnant after sleeping around two times. I came to believe my virginity made me a pollyanna or uncool. Most of my college-aged peers were...

From one woman who had an abortion: You could hear crying in the holding room… crying of women who already had the abortion. I remember the sounds, the smells, the suction… You could hear the sound of the motor of the pump, the suction when the baby was being withdrawn, the clinking of the utensils.… this hurts so bad [she thought] this is what I get, of course it’s going to hurt… Look what I’m doing… I just remember the crying… So many people crying. Only her husband and eldest son know about her two abortions which she had in...

We as a society are constantly bombarded with the pro-choice rhetoric that abortion is sometimes necessary. We also hear the words of post-abortive women like Cecile Richards who will say that their abortions were the right thing to do. But whether they are stuffing down their emotions or just plain lying, abortion is never a happy ending. It kills a child and leaves a mother to live the rest of her life with the knowledge that she took her child’s life. Nothing brings that pain to light better than the words directly from the mouths of everyday post-abortive mothers who...

Please listen to this You Tube video of the NJ State Senate Budget Chairman berating a post-abortive woman testifying at a Senate Budget Committee meeting at the NJ Statehouse regarding the continued funding of Planned Parenthood.  The funding bill has been vetoed by the governor every time a bill is submitted to him.Listen, on  media player, to the Actual Senate Hearing, slide the indicator to 41 minutes,  41:00 to hear the post-abortive woman and then NJ Right to Life with the truth about Planned Parenthood Monday, November 15, 2010 11:30 AM  Committee Room 4 You can also listen here to...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has refused to respond to requests for comment as to why a campaign staffer destroyed a woman's sign at a recent Kerry rally. Kerry saw Rebecca Porter's sign, saying "My Abortion Hurt Me," and a staffer tore it to shreds only moments after. In an exclusive LifeNews.com story last week, Porter said Kerry was "shocked and surprised" to see her sign. She said a campaign official then took her sign and tore it to pieces. The same staff member destroy a similar sign brought by Porter's friend Cindy....

Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- As the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry backs abortion. But a woman in Florida who wanted Kerry to know she regretted her abortion says she is glad he saw a sign she carried at a recent campaign event -- even though his staff tore it up afterwards. After watching the nightly news, Rebecca Porter had a dream envisioning herself letting Kerry know she had an abortion and regretted her decision. Porter told LifeNews.com that she and a friend went to an event the Kerry campaign had scheduled in Tampa. She brought along a sign...

Culture & Cosmos February 3, 2004 Volume 1, Number 26 Think-tank urges pro-life politicians to appeal to post-abortive women A new report just issued by the Elliot Institute suggests that pro-life political candidates can find fertile ground by making a more direct appeal to women who have had abortions, estimated by some at 30 million. According to the report, post abortive women might vote for pro-abortion politicians not because they believe abortion betters the lives of women, but because they perceive pro-abortion politicians to care more for women. The report says most “post-abortive women are 'pro-choice' only in regard to...