{"id":165761,"date":"2017-05-07T09:43:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T13:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=165761"},"modified":"2017-05-11T03:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T07:53:33","slug":"senate-candidate-when-my-first-child-was-aborted-left-very-significant-scar-on-my-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senate-candidate-when-my-first-child-was-aborted-left-very-significant-scar-on-my-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senate candidate: When my first child was aborted, it left “a very significant scar on my soul”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed Henry is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, and he’s currently running for a seat in the United States Senate. A Republican, Henry is hoping to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, whom President\u00a0Trump chose to serve as U.S. attorney general. A longtime pro-life advocate, Henry spoke\u00a0out about his disappointment in congressional Republicans for proposing a federal budget that includes funding for Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

Henry has a personal reason for wanting to see Planned Parenthood defunded: years ago, his child was aborted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“In ’91,” he said, “I was in a similar situation where I had a girlfriend who was with child and I made a decision that I will regret \u2013\u00a0that we went and I murdered my child, my first child,” he said at a rally in 2012. It wasn’t until eight years later, when his wife was pregnant with their first child together, that Henry realized the full extent of what he had done.<\/p>\n

“I saw that ultrasound of my baby, my child, and it came down on me like a ton of bricks that I had murdered my first child. And I will carry that with me to my grave. It should not be this easy for our children to kill their children.”<\/p>\n