{"id":205072,"date":"2019-06-21T14:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205072"},"modified":"2019-06-21T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:25:58","slug":"heartbreaking-video-father-sobs-begs-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/heartbreaking-video-father-sobs-begs-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking video: Father sobs, begs girlfriend not to abort their baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A pair of heartbreaking videos showing a father sobbing and pleading with his girlfriend not to abort their baby as she enters an abortion facility have gone viral on social media. The father&#8217;s story was shared by John Ryan, a pro-life advocate in Missouri, and quickly spread like wildfire across Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In the first video, the man, who Ryan identified as Tyler, sobs in anguish and screams for his girlfriend, Abby, to save their baby. &#8220;No, please don&#8217;t kill our baby!&#8221; Tyler can be heard crying. &#8220;Abby, don&#8217;t kill our baby! Abby!&#8221; In the second video, Tyler can be seen sitting on the curb, still crying, as sidewalk advocates try to comfort him. \u201cI\u2019m such a good Dad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I took care of her kids, too. And the other guy she\u2019s let back in her life doesn\u2019t even take care of his own kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Ryan, Abby is a victim of abuse &#8212; and was brought to the abortion facility by her stepmother, one of her abusers. Tyler said said she has three children, including a four-year-old who knows about the preborn baby, who was apparently originally planned. Why the circumstances changed and Abby began to seek out abortion was not shared, other than Tyler&#8217;s mentioning of &#8220;the other guy she&#8217;s let back in her life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fathers-explain-abortion-regret\/\">Fathers explain their abortion regret: \u2018I have never been the same since\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D2460285747317786%26id%3D100000091539486&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"818\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/center>The facility in the video appears to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-business-billboard-welcome-to-illinois-where-you-can-get-a-safe-legal-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hope Clinic for Women<\/a>, an abortion facility in Granite City, Illinois, on the border of Missouri and Illinois. The <a href=\"http:\/\/abortiondocs.org\/clinic\/surgical\/264\/granite-city-the-hope-clinic-for-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notorious facility<\/a> was sued by a former patient after abortionist Yogendra Shah committed an abortion procedure on a woman who was not even pregnant. The victim, Melanie Mills, said Shah never even gave her a pregnancy test, and she suffered guilt and regret for years until her gynecologist told her she had a blighted ovum, and had never been pregnant to begin with. Shah sued Mills in response, but lost his lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope no other woman will ever have to go through the mental torment of thinking they killed their child,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationrescue.org\/archives\/abortionist-loses-lawsuit-against-botched-%E2%80%9Cabortion%E2%80%9D-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she told Operation Rescue<\/a>. \u201cNot until I found I was not pregnant at the time of the abortion did I have peace of mind and Dr. Shah knew when the abortion was performed there was no baby, but he did not tell me. I have lived with the guilt until I found out the truth and it has taken a tremendous emotional toll on my life and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan, who filmed the video, is the same pro-life sidewalk advocate who was threatened last year by a man who pulled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/briannaheldt\/2018\/08\/16\/prolife-activist-threatened-by-gun-peacefully-protesting-outside-abortion-clinic-n2510512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a loaded gun on him<\/a> outside Hope Clinic. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t just a guy who had a rifle, he pointed it at me,\u201d he told Townhall, admitting that the incident unnerved him. Yet it hasn&#8217;t kept him from continuing to advocate for the preborn outside of the abortion facility.<\/p>\n<p>While Ryan could not be sure, he believes Abby did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abort<\/a>\u00a0her baby. At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehd.org\/dev_article_unit12.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 weeks<\/a>, the baby has a heartbeat, responds to touch, has her own unique fingerprints, can respond to touch, and smile.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you are a father whose child is at risk for abortion, you have options. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-and-men-whats-a-father-to-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for resources and tips that can help.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of heartbreaking videos showing a father sobbing and pleading with his girlfriend not to abort their baby as she enters an abortion facility have gone viral on social media. 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