I have one friend whose girlfriend got an abortion in college. He is still a wreck every year on the day his son would have been born. And it’s been 25 years.
As for her? She became a wreck. Drugs, dropped out, and then we never saw or heard from or about her. Fell off the planet.
Yeah, blessings. /HURL
I’ll be frank, most of the people I know who had an abortion would not tell me. They know I am not approving.
But of the people I know who had one, I can state with confidence it was a painful point in their life, regretted and in at least one case extremely damaging.
One person I know well I advised strongly against it, and she did it anyway. It destroyed her health (she caught MRSA at the clinic), and she lost the time she thought she was saving.
And while I made it a point not to criticize her (my focus was to win her to Christ in love) the funny thing was I got pregnant at about the same time, and she cut off the relationship with ME because she literally couldn’t look at my child. I would walk in the room and she would avert her eyes from him.
How about this for the ad:
I’m Louise and I’m 65 years old. I was young and innocent and only 20 years old when I accidentally got pregnant. I was too young to marry because I wanted to become a lawyer and I was still working on my Bachelor’s degree. That meant that I had at least six years of schooling still ahead of me and it would have been impossible for me to raise a child and go to school.
My boyfriend was pre-med and so he had 8 or 10 years of school, med school, internship and residency ahead of him. There was no way that he could put all that aside.
Our families were very supportive and encouraged us both to follow our dreams.
I completed law school and went on to become a partner in one of the most prestigeous law firms in the country. My boyfriend went on to become a well-known surgeon. I lost touch with him years ago.
I recently retired and I spend time at my large home in NYC and winters at my home in the South of France. I have cars at both homes and I can pretty much afford whatever I want. Of course I worked long hard hours to get where I am.
I have two nieces and three nephews. I send them gifts for Christmas and their birthdays. I haven’t really seen them much these last few years.
I was thinking of taking a cruise with a couple of lady lawyer friends I have, but I’m not sure I want to do that.
Children? No, I never had time for that, actually. By the time I reached my career goals there just weren’t any good men around, or I was too old for that (men all want young women, you know) and I really never wanted kids much anyway.
My health is good. I’ve planned ahead so that if I need care I can live well in an assisted care facility. They take good care of you, if you can afford a good one, I hear. My nieces and nephews will probably come and visit me once in a while.
It’s been a great life.
The End