{"id":232529,"date":"2020-10-19T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232529"},"modified":"2020-10-18T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T02:13:02","slug":"forced-adoption-abortion-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/forced-adoption-abortion-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced into adoption and abortion, Jess finally found healing from the ‘brokenness’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jess Echeverry<\/a>\u00a0has experienced both trauma and tremendous healing in her life. She recently spoke with Live Action News about the life events and circumstances that led her to have an abortion, and how she finally found healing.<\/p>\n

“I experienced a lot growing up,” she explained. “My abortion was really the result of 18 years of trauma<\/a> buildup. My parents divorced before I could walk.” What followed was a series of remarriages and divorces on both sides, resulting in “brokenness in my family — in my multiple families,” she said. That brokenness “created an environment that left us kids vulnerable.”<\/p>\n

At the age of 10, Echeverry suffered sexual molestation. At 12, an 18-year-old boy raped her. She was “shattered” and when she told her parents, their reaction made her realize she was on her own. “I needed to look out for myself,” she said. “Nobody had my back.” After that, she began to rebel.<\/p>\n

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