{"id":214734,"date":"2019-12-07T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=214734"},"modified":"2019-12-05T22:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T04:39:14","slug":"tori-haunted-abortion-years-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tori-haunted-abortion-years-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Tori was haunted by her abortion for years: ‘This is not the easy way out’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tori Shaw was just 16 years old when she learned she was pregnant. She, like so many young girls facing an unplanned pregnancy, was in shock and naive about her options and what abortion actually does. The decision was made in minutes with very little discussion. She would have an abortion the very next day. It was a decision that would haunt Tori for years.<\/p>\n

“I had been really sick,” she told Live Action News. “I was throwing up. I couldn’t keep anything down for days. My mom took me to the doctor.\u00a0While\u00a0I was in the room alone and my mom was in the waiting room, a doctor came and told me\u00a0I was\u00a0pregnant. She was nine months\u00a0pregnant herself.\u00a0When she told me I was pregnant, I cried and screamed\u00a0and my mom heard me in the waiting room.”<\/p>\n

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Tori was shocked because at 16 years old, it simply didn’t cross her mind that she could be pregnant. She called her boyfriend Bryan, whom she would later marry, to tell him — but he didn’t have much of a chance to think it over either. Right then and there, the very pregnant doctor made the appointment for the following day at an abortion facility in Winston Salem.<\/p>\n

Tori spent the night in the hospital due to dehydration, and the next morning she was taken to the abortion facility.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t remember going in. I pushed the memories so far away,” she said. “Little memories come back here and there. I remember when they called my name and I went back into this separate part of the clinic. My mom stayed in the waiting room.”<\/p>\n

When she was taken into the procedure room, an ultrasound was performed and Tori asked about it, but no one would give her information or let her see the screen. The abortionist used the ultrasound to commit a vacuum aspiration abortion, which is explained in the video below by former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino:<\/p>\n

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