{"id":271188,"date":"2022-07-02T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T20:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=271188"},"modified":"2022-07-01T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:33:08","slug":"teen-mom-canceled-abortion-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teen-mom-canceled-abortion-heartbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom canceled abortion after hearing daughter&#8217;s heartbeat: &#8216;God knew what He was doing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twenty-five years ago, at age 19, Andrea found out she was pregnant while in a hospital emergency room seeking medical care after a car accident. Before any X-rays could be performed, she was told the doctors needed to rule out pregnancy. She hadn\u2019t even missed her period yet, but the test came back positive. Immediately, she felt flooded with guilt and shame.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI thought, \u2018Oh my goodness. This is not a good position to be in.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t in a relationship with the father. I was unwed. It was the perfect storm,\u201d she recalled to Live Action News. She knew of friends who had had abortions and said, \u201cThey didn\u2019t seem bothered by them. I thought, &#8216;Maybe it wouldn\u2019t bother me either.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the next two weeks, Andrea shared the news of her pregnancy with her parents, family friends, and the baby\u2019s father. She described the responses she received as \u201call over the map.\u201d Her own father and several of her cousins had been adopted. &#8220;Family friends told me right away I needed to give the baby up for adoption,&#8221; she explained. The baby\u2019s father, on the other hand, made it clear that he had no intention of parenting and wanted Andrea to have an abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_271592\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271592\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-271592 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/288867581_417609780246636_2307408559809554483_n-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/288867581_417609780246636_2307408559809554483_n-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/288867581_417609780246636_2307408559809554483_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/288867581_417609780246636_2307408559809554483_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/288867581_417609780246636_2307408559809554483_n-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/288867581_417609780246636_2307408559809554483_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-271592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Andrea.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrea\u2019s mother and father offered the response she believes every young woman who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant is hoping for from her parents: unconditional love. \u201cThey were understanding and forgiving,\u201d she said. Her dad offered to let Andrea and the baby live with him for the first year. Andrea still felt very conflicted but thinking back to her parents\u2019 responses Andrea realized, \u201cThat sense of shame didn\u2019t come from an external place.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two weeks later, Andrea walked through a line of protestors to enter an abortion facility. It was the late 1990s, and she remembers, \u201cThere was a strong picketing presence, and walking through that static was intense. There was a sense of anger that felt like hate. It overwhelmed me and it felt like more shame heaped on me.\u201d She continued, \u201cNow, it seems like things are a little more peaceful, loving, gentle, prayerful. But at that time, it was at me. It was not alongside me or helpful or loving.\u201d The anger \u201calmost made me want to go through [the abortion] more. It\u2019s like a rebellion against that anger that\u2019s directed at you,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside the facility, Andrea had another pregnancy test and a pre-abortion ultrasound. She would have to return on a different day for the abortion itself, but the date was already scheduled. Surprisingly, as the ultrasound technician waved the probe back and forth across her belly, she asked Andrea, \u201cDo you want to hear the heartbeat?\u201d Andrea was completely taken aback. \u201cWait, there\u2019s a heartbeat?\u201d she asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she heard her baby\u2019s heartbeat, she said, \u201cIt was like an instant \u2018oh. This isn\u2019t just flesh, you know, a clump of cells\u2026 It made it very real for me.\u201d When she left the clinic, she had &#8220;an opportunity to reflect, \u2018what is this choice going to do to me long-term?\u2019\u201d Andrea began to feel that she would very strongly regret having an abortion and she did not keep her abortion appointment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, Andrea worked with an adoption agency to pursue an open adoption. She was given profiles of ten sets of parents and narrowed her options down to two sets. After interviewing both couples, she made her choice. She went through Lamaze classes together with the adoptive couple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-pregnant-parenting-teenager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Love Them Both: 7 pro-life ways to help a pregnant or parenting teenager<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But after she gave birth to her daughter Olivia, \u201cThere was just no way. [Seeing her] was pretty magical, it was just so special. I think that after giving birth the underlying fear was that I wasn\u2019t going to be a good mom. The world kind of tells you that all these things need to be perfect &#8211; perfect spouse, perfect wedding, perfect finances.\u201d That first night in the hospital, \u201cMy fears just melted away when I heard her cry out for just a second in the middle of the night, and I woke up. Those mothering instincts just came to me, and I just knew it. There was this deep sense in me that I could mother and that I would be there [for her] forever.\u201d She decided to parent her baby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around the age of two, Olivia\u2019s father took a more active role in her life and he remains part of it to this day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her part, as she was growing up, Olivia heard \u201cbits and pieces\u201d about her mom\u2019s scheduled abortion and then plan for adoption. The message she internalized was, \u201cHearing I was supposed to be aborted or I was supposed to be adopted, that took root in me. I felt like \u2018Oh, well, I wasn\u2019t wanted. I wasn\u2019t planned. Lies took hold in my heart.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in 2017, when she came home from college after asking the Lord into her heart, Olivia and Andrea went on a drive where Olivia learned the whole story. \u201cShe pretty much told me \u2018No, you changed my life. I [previously] took it as \u2018oh, I was a burden. I wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. I made my parents get together.\u2019 I took it negatively, but [on that drive] my mom told me \u2018You saved me.\u2019 Hearing that, and hearing the story from beginning to end transformed how I saw myself and how I saw my mom. It was really special. It was really special to hear her heart.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrea affirmed, \u201cShe was the biggest blessing ever. God knew exactly what He was doing.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivia added, \u201cHearing how she spoke about it, I felt like \u2018I have purpose now. Before I felt like \u2018what am I doing? I\u2019m not supposed to be here.\u2019\u201d But then she realized, \u201cI\u2019m ordained to be here.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast forward to today, and 24-year-old Olivia is expecting her first baby, a son named Judah, in early July. On Mother\u2019s Day, she wrote a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/olivia.malchi\/posts\/pfbid037QHF5cqjbFhDPrHJ8XXCRgN7RvntVR47GpG8TWc6NPFvzE7SUZN9w9RRRCvupR2ol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook post<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">celebrating her own motherhood and her mother\u2019s choice of life. After briefly sharing their story, Olivia wrote, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope this encourages just one woman. If you are debating whether or not to get an abortion, know that in your darkest hour God is with you and He will sustain you. He makes beautiful and wonderful things out of ashes, and even when we can\u2019t see a way out He is paving a way for newness and redemption. I wouldn\u2019t have a life if my mama didn\u2019t lay down her own. That\u2019s what love is, laying down your life for another.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years ago, at age 19, Andrea found out she was pregnant while in a hospital emergency room seeking medical care after a car accident. Before any X-rays could be performed, she was told the doctors needed to rule out pregnancy. She hadn\u2019t even missed her period yet, but the test came back positive. 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