{"id":203853,"date":"2019-06-28T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=203853"},"modified":"2019-06-25T00:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:59:26","slug":"abortion-regret-think-baby-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-regret-think-baby-aborted\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’ll never forgive myself’: Woman tells fellow passenger of past abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katie Prejean McGrady<\/a>, a Catholic speaker, writer, and podcast host, was sitting on a flight last summer next to a businesswoman. The two didn’t speak as nearly an hour went by. But then a picture of McGrady’s daughter popped up on her laptop screen, and led to a conversation that revealed deep abortion<\/a> regret — which many post-abortive women experience.<\/p>\n

At first, the conversation was casual, discussing McGrady’s daughter and her hopes of having more children. Then the conversation turned its focus to the other woman, and whether or not she had any children.<\/p>\n

“I have two. Well, three. But only two here,” she told McGrady.<\/p>\n

It could have been anything – a miscarriage, an accident, cancer. McGrady didn’t ask; she simply waited, and then the pain poured out of the woman sitting next to her. “I had an abortion when I was married to my first husband,” McGrady recalled her saying. “I was working in New York. Finance. Rising in the ranks. One of the only women with any power there. He was traveling all the time. Starting companies. Burning through cash. I was on the pill, forgot a few doses, we got pregnant… just bad timing.”<\/p>\n

READ: Woman regrets abortion: \u2018I was screaming inside for someone to tell me\u2026 keep the baby\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

An abortion was scheduled within a week’s time. As she recalled the experience, she didn’t look at McGrady but focused on the seat in front of her.<\/p>\n

“She continued, ‘We got divorced 4 years later. We’d both changed. He was never home. I was gaining influence at the company. We finally wanted kids and couldn’t…'”<\/p>\n

There was a long, silent pause before the woman blamed the abortion for the destruction of both her marriage and her ability to have children. And she’s right. Abortion can cause deep divides<\/a> between spouses, including feelings of hatred, blame, and anger.<\/p>\n