{"id":180597,"date":"2018-03-19T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=180597"},"modified":"2018-03-19T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:31:33","slug":"took-abortion-pill-saved-babys-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/took-abortion-pill-saved-babys-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina took the abortion pill, but what she did next saved her baby’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>)\u00a0On a Saturday morning in early 2017, Katrina officially hit rock bottom. A day earlier, she had caved in\u2014at her boyfriend\u2019s insistence\u2014and surrendered to abortion at a clinic in Alamonte Springs, Florida, near Orlando.<\/p>\n

As guilty as she felt, there was just no turning back now as she sat across the table from Mercedes Henry at Life Choices Medical Clinic\u2014a pro-life pregnancy center located right next door<\/a> to the abortion clinic Katrina had visited the day before.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how Katrina felt in the moment, at least. The dread of fear and shame over her pregnancy had given way to a settled, lifelong night of hopeless finality the moment she took the first of two pills in the chemical \u201cabortion pill\u201d regimen.<\/p>\n

It would take a miracle to save her baby at this point, but perhaps something even more extraordinary to revive the hope that had died in her heart 24 hours earlier.<\/p>\n

Even while Henry pleaded with her to try and rescue her baby with an off-label use of progesterone that\u2019s been used since the 1950s to hold off early miscarriages, Katrina just couldn\u2019t see the glimmer of light opening wide before her eyes.<\/p>\n

After spending an hour with Katrina, begging her to take one more chance at life, Henry offered to pray with her, then left the room to get a drink of water.<\/p>\n

By the time she came back, Katrina\u2019s mind had changed. She was ready to give Abortion Pill Reversal a try.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d Katrina said. \u201cI really don\u2019t know what changed in me, but in those few moments she was gone, I just felt this overwhelming sense of peace. For the first time since I found out I was pregnant, I didn\u2019t feel like I was living in fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Miracle in the Making<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

The fact the two women were talking at all was miraculous in and of itself. In the weeks leading up to her abortion next door, Katrina had been practically hijacked by fear and shame\u2014not to mention constant manipulation from her boyfriend, who threatened to kill himself if she didn\u2019t abort their child.<\/p>\n

Enslaved by those dynamics, Katrina told her sister, a practicing Catholic, about her pregnancy at one point. On the day of her abortion, Katrina lied and told her sister she\u2019d lost the baby in a miscarriage. She hadn\u2019t dared to tell her parents, who were living in Jacksonville, but they realized she was pregnant when they found a Google search Katrina had run on their home computer over Christmas break.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, Katrina\u2019s parents put two and two together the very day of her abortion, and showed up unannounced in Orlando\u2014a two-hour drive from their home. Katrina told them the truth, thinking that would be the end of it, but her mother started a Google search of her own.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Katrina\u2019s mother found the Abortion Pill Reversal network and hotline (AbortionPillReversal.com, 1-877-558-0333), which has helped over 400 mothers rescue their children<\/a> after starting the two-step abortion pill process since 2007.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what led the family to Life Choices Medical Clinic in Alamonte Springs\u2014just steps away from the abortion clinic Katrina\u2019s boyfriend drove her to the day before.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told my mom, \u2018Hey, this isn\u2019t the place,\u2019\u201d Katrina said. \u201c\u2018I don\u2019t know what it is, but this is the place I actually got the abortion.\u2019 She started freaking out, but then I looked again and realized we were headed next door.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just so welcoming inside. You feel relaxed and at ease\u2014the total, complete opposite of when I was at the abortion clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Choice of Her Own<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

The weeks leading up to that Saturday afternoon had taken a heavy emotional toll on Katrina, which made it an uphill climb for her parents and Henry to help her see she could still change her mind.<\/p>\n

Before she found out she was pregnant, she\u2019d been the president of her sorority and was looking ahead to her future career, just over the horizon of the upcoming spring semester. Now, it seemed, Katrina was at a crucial crossroads.<\/p>\n

Katrina was raised as a Catholic, but college life had taken care of that. By the time she knew she was pregnant, Katrina\u2019s nominal faith was no match for her boyfriend\u2019s knee-jerk reaction and relentless pressure.<\/p>\n

Still, the despair she felt after having taken mifepristone\u2014the first pill in the chemical abortion pill process, known euphemistically as \u201cmedication abortion\u201d or technically as RU-486\u2014was as crushing as it was immediate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second I got there, it didn\u2019t feel right,\u201d Katrina\u00a0said. \u201cIt was just an eerie, chilling feeling once I walked in. I just felt completely lifeless. The second I actually took the pill, it hit me\u2014\u2018I can\u2019t believe that my selfishness is really getting the best of me and allowing me to murder an unborn child because of my own selfish reasons and because someone else is getting in my head.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n