{"id":164300,"date":"2017-04-05T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=164300"},"modified":"2017-04-27T01:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T05:52:14","slug":"i-was-scheduled-to-be-aborted-but-my-mother-had-the-strength-to-walk-out-of-the-facility-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/i-was-scheduled-to-be-aborted-but-my-mother-had-the-strength-to-walk-out-of-the-facility-that-day\/","title":{"rendered":"I was scheduled to be aborted, but my mother had the strength to walk out of the facility that day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the early 1980s, I was scheduled to be aborted. In a hospital in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, I had an appointment to die. A janitor approached my mother and spoke\u00a0to her, giving her the\u00a0strength\u00a0to walk out.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0I celebrated Women’s History Month, I’ve reflected with gratitude on the\u00a0rights afforded me. All the rights I possess as a black woman\u00a0are\u00a0available to\u00a0me because my life was spared. If I\u2019d been dismembered through a suction machine or the cruel cutting of a cold instrument, my dreams and\u00a0potential would have died with me.<\/p>\n

Recently, my story of escaping abortion was told in a short film called “Hear from Heaven<\/a>.” The film\u00a0shows a journey I took to Selma, Alabama, to protest an illegal abortion clinic that was profiting off low-income women of color. I and other black pro-life female leaders exposed the unjust practice that was taking advantage of vulnerable women.<\/p>\n