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Angie Davis Wright describes her childhood years as a time marked by neglect, trauma, abuse, and poverty. She longed desperately for a loving relationship with her father \u2013 but sadly, she knew only a man who grappled with PTSD after serving in combat in the Vietnam War and who turned to drugs and alcohol to ease the pain of an accident he suffered on the job. She remembers wanting to flee a household devoid of loving relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n

During her teen years, Angie ached for the male attention she never received growing up. As she entered college, she became sexually promiscuous and often was attracted to dangerous situations. While intoxicated at a friend\u2019s party one night, she was sexually assaulted by a man she didn\u2019t know, but she never told anyone of the rape.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the attack happened, I wasn\u2019t sad. I wasn\u2019t angry. I was just emotionless,\u201d she told Live Action News. \u201cAll my shame was buried deep inside. I had no sense of self-worth. I was just the girl with the sexually promiscuous reputation, and this became my identify. All I really cared about was getting an education and escaping the impoverished life of my childhood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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But Angie\u2019s promiscuous lifestyle caught up with her. Sitting in her college class one day, she fell asleep. She began to regularly experience fatigue and nausea. Alone in her dorm room on Valentine\u2019s Day, Angie took a home pregnancy test which yielded no immediate results \u2013 until the following day after she threw the test in the trash can.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI came back to my dorm room the next day after class and there sat the pregnancy test in the trash indicating I was indeed pregnant. I remember feeling so scared,” Angie said. “To me, my education was my ticket out of a painful past and I didn\u2019t want anything to threaten that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Her roommate encouraged her to \u201cget rid of it\u201d and Angie wondered if she really did want to keep her baby. She didn\u2019t know who fathered her child and felt nobody really cared about her welfare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI certainly wasn\u2019t going to tell my parents about my pregnancy,\u201d Angie said. \u201cI had no support at the time. I remembered seeing a pamphlet in my desk drawer in my dorm room that had local help lines listed, one of which was the crisis pregnancy center. So, I made an appointment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While the counselor at the center was helpful and caring, Angie felt numb. She discovered she was seven weeks pregnant. She took the pamphlets depicting the baby\u2019s development and detailing the risks of abortion and the Gospel tract the women had given her, but she had already decided she couldn\u2019t keep the baby and attend college. She just wanted some stability in her life and knew she wouldn\u2019t find it by going back to her parents\u2019 home. Stuffing her emotions deep inside, she stoically made the appointment for an abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n