Posted on 12/26/2020 11:53:41 AM PST by xomething
Jessica Duran wavered back and forth about aborting her unborn baby as she sat inside a New Mexico abortion facility in 2012.
Though she eventually told the abortion workers to go through with the abortion, Duran said she still felt unsure; she even spit out the abortion pills that they gave her. But instead of encouraging her to take a few days to reconsider, Duran said the abortion staff coerced her into aborting her unborn child.
On Tuesday, the pro-life group Abortion on Trial shared Duran’s story and the medical records from her abortion at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque. Duran is suing the abortion facility in the case Duran vs. Curtis Boyd & S.W.O.
“I wanted my baby,” Duran said. “I didn’t just wake up one day and decide to go get an abortion. I fought for my child’s life for three months. I fought until I literally couldn’t physically or emotionally handle fighting that pressure anymore.”
Duran said her family and boyfriend wanted her to have an abortion. She said she considered it because she felt like she did not have any support.
According to Abortion on Trial, Duran expressed doubts during her first appointment at the abortion facility, and her medical records state that she decided to consider adoption for her baby.
However, she said her family was not supportive, so she scheduled an appointment for an abortion a few days later.
During that second appointment, her medical records indicate that Duran wavered about her decision multiple times – sometimes saying she was sure she wanted the abortion and other times indicating she was not.
At one point, her medical records say her mother who was in the waiting room asked to speak to her and Duran agreed. According to the records, Duran’s mother had changed her mind and did not want her daughter to abort her baby. The records indicate that the mother and daughter did speak together, but one of the abortion staffers eventually shut the door on the mother because “she was hounding” Duran.
“When Jessica was given misoprostol pills to begin her abortion procedure, she felt she could not go through with it. She spit the pills out and stated, ‘I can’t do this,’ as clearly documented in her chart,” according to Abortion on Trial.
Rather than encourage Duran to go home and take time to consider her options, her medical records say she was taken to a small room for “re-counseling” and then left alone. It is not clear how long she waited alone in the room.
Duran said she eventually broke down and agreed to go through with the surgical abortion. She was 13 weeks pregnant with her unborn baby, according to her records.
She said she refused pain medication because she wanted to feel the same pain her baby would feel – something Abortion on Trial pointed to as more evidence that the abortion facility should not have done the abortion.
On her medical records, the abortion facility claimed her abortion was “medically necessary” because the pregnancy had “a profound, negative impact upon the mental health of this woman.” Her unborn baby’s abortion death also was paid for by taxpayers through the state Medicaid program, according to the records.
Duran said she thought Southwestern Women’s Options had her best interests at heart, but she was wrong. She said she decided to share her story and sue the abortion facility to protect other women and babies from similar fates.
“Nobody loved my baby but me. I wish someone would’ve been there to tell me that my love was enough,” she said.
Jamie Jeffries, the director of Abortion on Trial, accused Southwestern Women’s Options of psychological malpractice.
“This provider should’ve sent Jessica home that day,” Jeffries said. “She was clearly not decided. And had they not taken her phone, prevented her from speaking to family, and shoved her in an isolating room, she probably would’ve found the strength to walk out with her baby alive.”
Jeffries said the abortion facility prioritized selling abortions over a patient’s well-being.
Abortion on Trial told LifeNews that it is involved in Duran’s legal case. A spokesperson said the trial was delayed due to COVID-19.
That is horrible!
THIS is why I have been pro-life for decades. THIS is the true “Woman’s right to choose” !! Ever have AOL as your provider back in the 90s, and then felt you needed to go with some other provider?They simply wouldn’t let you break your contract. The institutionalized Abortion zealots have the same pecuniary interest in aborting your child. $$$
#1- she went to the abortion mill to kill her baby.
#2- she killed her baby.
Any questions, to back to #1
This is akin to the drug user going to her supplier with the intent of buying drugs. Having a brief change to f heart, but the drug dealer convinced them to buy and use anyway...(an easy sale for one already purposes in their heart to do it). So then you sue the drug dealer for providing what you went there for?
My heart absolutely grieves for the child that was murdered. And Impray this woman repents of her evil, selfish sin. I pray the LORD will help her to see HER responsibility- and Tuen to Him for forgiveness.
But her suing the abortion isn’t is deflecting away from her responsibility in the sin. That’s a lack of repentance.
All for a few dollars in their coffers.
Such evil.
“Ever have AOL as your provider back in the 90s, and then felt you needed to go with some other provider?They simply wouldn’t let you break your contract. “
Would you let them break the contract and raise your charges?
Have you ever jeld the hand of someone like her? Watch Unplanned. She is being psychologically coerced at a time when emotional states are fragile.
Volunteer a few years at a crisis pregnancy center. There are plenty like her. I am sure thete are many using abortion as birth control who are evil and unrepentant. They are in the minority.
First lesson at a crisis pregnancy center.. establish a Christian relationship.. pray for them both. Without love for the mother, you cannot help a baby.
They do not need a judge, they need the truth in love.
What kind of “counseling” could they possible have at that abortion facility?
There should be a law that all women seeking abortion should be given free counseling and backup if she doesn’t have a place to stay.
Now THAT’S a beautiful story.
Few people talk about the boyfriends who pressure the woman to get an abortion. These same guys would never consider marrying a woman with a child. This woman has a wonderful son, a house and a job - but the odds of her ever finding a man who will marry her are slim.
If she was a child I'd be in her corner leading a rally against her parents for doing this to a child.
She needs to take Personal Responsibility . The only victim is the one she aborted. It's called being an adult and doing the right thing. I had 4 abortion chances but I chose birth. Sorry, not sorry.
I shouldn’t have put it that way-—it wasn’t really breaking a contract-—one wasn’t trying to get away with anything or cheat them out of anything-—this is so long ago, I’m not sure exactly what the terms were, I just didn’t want to renew and wanted to switch to someone else.....woman gave me the hardest time for a good ten minutes..finally relented because I convinced her what she was doing was illegal.
I have held the hand of many in extremely difficult circumstances, and yes - have ministered to those who have had abortions. Yes, it is hard - but again - while I pray for those who are grieving their decision - ultimately, it was a decision they made. That abortion mill wouldn’t even exist were it not for those seeking to murder their unborn child.
You are using a bent logical fallacy - she didn’t go to a Crisis Pregnancy Center - she went to an abortion mill. She went with murder on her mind and heart and carried it through with just a nudge.
I do pray she (and others like her) find repentance and healing - but blaming everyone but yourself is not healing, nor is it repentance. It is deflecting blame.
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