I believe for each and every abortion there is a story like this. Blessings on this poor woman and all others who were so cruelly tricked by the media following a few hideous man-hating hags in the 60s and 70s.
It is my belief that now women are turning more and more away from this murder of convenience and women are learning more about the life (YES, DEAR G_D, THE LIFE!) of a first-trimester unborn baby.
However, there is another trend that is even more insidious. The wonderful instrument that has greatly helped the Life movement, the ultrasound machine, is now also providing couples with a reason to kill even older babies in utero: they can view their baby's imperfections. Down's Syndrome and other deformities are showing up, and doctors are complicit in giving these couples "choices" to make. They use words like "incompatible with life."
Yet even a baby born with severe problems might well live for moments, hours, or days, and might have that chance to visit this earth and be held by those who already love him impossibly much, and be able to be bathed in their loving tears and receive those kisses. It's sadder than sad but there is a beauty to the angels that don't stay. It is wrong to murder them before their time.
Whats so truly sad is that even today (or maybe especially today) women are still being pressured into abortions.. My wife is the office/personnel manager at a large restaurant which has about 100 servers , 60%+ female , she is well liked there and has had several women over the years confide in her that they are pregnant and need a day off for an abortion ... I know from their hiring practices that these are above average IQ , mostly college grad employees... in each case my wife has assured them that their jobs will remain secure and that she will fudge the books to get them on the insurance plan if they continue the pregnancy ,, of the ones that aborted I can tell you that they were all fired (by other managers who were not "in the know") for the same reason within a few months ,, drug abuse/not showing up/depression ruining their customer rapport....
This subject is impossible to ignore as it affects every one of us... we were all born (thank GOD) , I was adopted as an infant in the early 60's ,, and probably wouldn't be here if I was conceived a few years later... My wife and I were always very careful about birth control until the time we were ready to start a family and even then we had to confront this ugliness as being over 35 our HMO insisted on a series of extra genetic tests and the screening showed a trisomy-18 error which is 100% fatal usually shortly after week 20 but sometimes up to the last few weeks ,, luckily the screening test was a false positive but I would have been in a very uncomfortable position of voting for the most humane abortion possible at the earliest possible time to reduce the physical trauma to my wife.
Excellent comments, Yaelle.