{"id":193595,"date":"2019-01-01T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T16:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=193595"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:38:12","slug":"choosing-life-abortion-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/choosing-life-abortion-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing life instead of abortion saved this mom from a life of drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When a young girl faces a crisis pregnancy, it’s not uncommon for her to be pressured into getting an abortion. But the support one girl received not only saved her daughter’s life — it saved her own, too. <\/p>\n

By age 12, Courtney Kroll’s<\/a> seemingly perfect life came crashing down. A cheerleader on the honor roll, Kroll’s life appeared ideal from the outside, but in reality, she was dealing with depression and a stable but sometimes difficult family life. She began using drugs, smoking, drinking alcohol, engaging in sex and self-harming behaviors, and lying to her parents about it all. While her family and a psychologist couldn’t seem to get through to her, the person who would change everything had yet to be born.<\/p>\n

It was when she was 13 that Kroll had such a violent outburst at home – throwing a dresser drawer and punching a mirror hard enough to break it and cause her hand to bleed – that her mother called the police. She was taken for a drug test and that’s when her life took a turn for the better.<\/p>\n

READ: Pregnant and addicted to drugs? You have better choices than abortion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The nurse asked Kroll if there was a chance she could be pregnant, to which Kroll responded, “I don’t know.” A positive pregnancy test wiped away any doubt. She was in eighth grade, using drugs, and pregnant. She was sent to a home for troubled teens.<\/p>\n

“After processing my new reality, I was advised and encouraged to have an abortion by everyone, except for my mom and aunt,” Kroll wrote in an essay for Love What Matters<\/a>. “They’re firm believers in choosing life and I was too until I was actually pregnant. They encouraged me to go through with the pregnancy and if I needed to give my baby up for adoption, that it was perfectly ok. I decided I was getting an abortion.”<\/p>\n

But as time went by, Kroll could never bring herself to go to an abortion facility<\/a>. Despite being bullied at school and dealing with the gossip about her, she realized that she could keep her baby. With the support of her family, she did just that.<\/p>\n