{"id":244179,"date":"2021-04-30T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=244179"},"modified":"2021-04-29T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T04:55:08","slug":"retired-nurse-abortion-promised-answer-created-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/retired-nurse-abortion-promised-answer-created-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired nurse: Abortion promised an answer, but created trauma in my life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the author and are not necessarily reflective of Live Action or Live Action News.<\/i><\/p>\n

I had an abortion when I was just 18, and a college freshman. My boyfriend of two years and I were faced with an unintended pregnancy. When we went to the women\u2019s center near our university campus, we received no options counseling. We were told only of abortion.<\/p>\n

I was not empowered as a person to explore my options. It was \u201cassumed\u201d I should take care of my \u201cproblem pregnancy\u201d quickly, and that abortion was my easy \u201cout.\u201d The Women\u2019s Center personnel discussed the abortion procedure\u00a0as if it was as minor as getting a tooth pulled!<\/p>\n

When I had the abortion, a non-medical “counselor” told me it was just a “glob of pregnancy tissue.” Later, I learned that my baby’s heartbeat began beating just three weeks after conception! I was not told about the possibility of “post-abortion stress,\u201d which I suffered. There was no discussion about the potential for lasting sadness, depression, regret, guilt, shame, flashbacks, nightmares, regret, heightened statistics of substance abuse, and breast cancer <\/b>(which I later developed in my 40\u2019s, with subsequent double mastectomies).<\/p>\n