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I was married when I learned I was pregnant. I had become unhappy in my marriage after a short time, but to my own detriment, I was too independent and strong willed to try and work things out. I had closed my mind to the relationship and stubbornly held to that plan. <\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to confide in anyone, but there was one so-called friend who, seeing my unhappiness, told me about her two abortions and presented the option to me. I was so unhappy that I had become pregnant and thought that it would not fit in\u00a0 with my plan to leave the marriage, so I decided on my own \u2014\u00a0with no open conversation with my husband \u2014\u00a0to have an abortion. I told him I did not want to have a baby and he\u00a0 arranged for the procedure. <\/span><\/p>\n

Neither of us probably realized the impact of what we had\u00a0 planned: he to arrange it at a clinic and me to go through with it. I felt little emotion. Emotion had all been used up by my selfish unhappiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0\u2018The biggest regret of my entire life\u2019: Elderly woman still suffers pain of abortion regret three decades later<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Afterward, there was a feeling of freedom until reality began to sink into my life. I wanted to be independent and not need anyone. In some ways, that is how I have led my life. Alone. <\/span><\/p>\n

It would have been good perhaps to have a life partner and to share joy and happiness of a child with him, but I was never able to think that way. The urge to become a mother seemed foreign to me as I went through life. I happened to have few friends who had babies and rarely was around children though it seemed like something I wanted to do. I once held a baby at a wedding party and it was a beautiful and precious moment in time which I will never forget. Yes \u2014\u00a0at that moment, I wanted the feeling of cradling a little one of my own in my arms. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now, at the end of my years, I want to tell all young women and young men contemplating using abortion as birth control (as it had been described) or acting upon it for some other reason: Don’t do it. You will be sorry forever.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how I could one day welcome a child I killed or how that sweet child could ever welcome me, its mother. I believe God\u2019s love covers all but there is always a price to pay for wrongdoing. And I believe what I did was wrong. <\/span><\/p>\n

God forgive me, please… Baby forgive me, please. I am sorry. I never had a second chance that I know of. If I had tried, perhaps I could have helped create one but I never did. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lonely life without children to love you when you get older.\u00a0<\/span>I hope my message will help someone avoid living their life with this huge regret.<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: If you are struggling with abortion regret, please visit HopeAfterAbortion.com<\/a> or Rachel’s Vineyard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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