{"id":274744,"date":"2022-08-23T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=274744"},"modified":"2022-08-22T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T17:09:50","slug":"women-coerced-abortions-doctor-boyfriend-told-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-coerced-abortions-doctor-boyfriend-told-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Women recall being coerced into abortions: &#8216;I did what my doctor and boyfriend told me to do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even as pro-abortion media bombards readers and viewers with stories from women who claim abortion was the best thing they ever did, the countless stories of women who regret their abortions are often buried \u2014 despite entire organizations, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/silentnomoreawareness.org\">Silent No More<\/a>, which give women suffering abortion trauma a voice and venue to share their stories. In addition, entire books have been written on the subject of abortion regret. Below are stories from just one pro-life book featuring women&#8217;s accounts of coerced abortions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Loophole in the law allows a legal abortion before Roe v. Wade<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria wanted her baby but was pressured to abort by her boyfriend. She says, &#8220;I told him that I didn&#8217;t think abortion was right and that it wasn&#8217;t what I wanted.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite her wishes, he continued to argue:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I got daily pressure from Sam. &#8220;When are you going to do something?&#8221; he&#8217;d ask. &#8220;You have to do something soon, or it will be too late.&#8221; I remember at that point being terribly afraid that I would lose him because I wasn&#8217;t doing what he wanted me to do.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was before <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but Maria was able to have a legal abortion anyway. All she had to do was meet with a psychiatrist:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[The psychiatrist] asked me a list of what seemed like standard questions. If I didn&#8217;t answer them &#8220;correctly,&#8221; he told me what I should have said and asked the question again\u2026 He wrote on a piece of paper that I was incompetent to have a baby, and that&#8217;s how the illegal abortion became legal.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>An abortionist ignored her wishes\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the abortion facility, Maria tried to back out:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember telling the [abortionist] that this wasn&#8217;t really what I wanted, but he said that this was the best solution to my problem. &#8220;What would your mother and father say if they knew?&#8221; he asked.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All through my growing up years I&#8217;d been taught to respect doctors, that they would always do what was best for me. I remember thinking that he must be right, that this must be the best solution to my problem.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was mesmerized by these two male authority figures \u2013 my boyfriend and my doctor \u2013 and I did what they told me to do.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>A traumatic abortion followed by serious complications<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria had a saline abortion, a type of abortion that is seldom done today because it is so dangerous to the mother and resulted in so many live births. In a saline abortion, a caustic salt solution is injected into the uterus, which burns and poisons the baby. The mother then goes through labor and delivers a dead child.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria recalls being in a bed surrounded by other women waiting to deliver their dead babies. She heard crying and moaning all around her. It took 12 hours for her to expel her child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She recalls, \u201cI called the nurse; she put the baby into a steel container and took it away\u2026 I knew it was a boy.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the abortion, Maria suffered severe complications. The saline solution caused a massive infection, and her kidneys failed. She was rushed to the hospital and put on dialysis.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria had wanted to keep her abortion a secret from her parents, but doctors doubted she would survive and suggested she call them. She remembers her father standing by her hospital bed, weeping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the dialysis tube was removed, Maria began bleeding internally. Her father called for a priest to administer Last Rites. When the priest heard her confession, the full realization of what she\u2019d done hit Maria. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She says, \u201cSuddenly I realized what I had done to myself, to my baby, to my parents, to the baby&#8217;s father. It was like dominoes, all the lives that had been affected by what I had done.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was in the hospital for two months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/coerced-abortion-more-common\/\">Coerced abortion: It\u2019s far more common than you think<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She later tried to cope by drinking to \u201cnumb the pain\u201d and keeping herself \u201ctoo busy to think.\u201d Sam, now her husband, \u201ckind of went crazy with his heavy drinking.\u201d She believes guilt from the abortion is what led to his alcoholism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she and Sam tried to start a family, she discovered she couldn\u2019t conceive. The infection had left her infertile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria says, \u201cThe guilt that I felt, guilt that I killed my only child, was extreme.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Coercion from an abusive boyfriend<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lynette was a junior in high school when she became pregnant. She says, \u201cIt was wonderful until I told Tom.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her boyfriend Tom demanded she get an abortion. Lynette protested:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, I was adamant. I told him that God had given me this child, put it inside my body, and I couldn&#8217;t do that to it. That was the first time he beat me up. He told me, &#8220;You will either go and have this done, or I will beat it out of you. I&#8217;m not raising this child.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though Tom was abusive, Lynette was emotionally dependent on him. She says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This boy was my life; I was totally committed to him\u2026 I was such a romantic. I had bought it all, hook, line, and sinker\u2026 It was going to be melodramatic and painful, but wonderful so long as we had each other. I trusted in that.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She gave in, had the abortion, and married Tom, who continued to abuse her. Consumed with guilt, she felt she didn\u2019t deserve a better relationship. Eventually, their marriage ended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She married another man, and they wanted children. But she suffered an ectopic pregnancy. Doctors said the abortion could be the cause. She was unable to conceive, and her second marriage fell apart.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lynette suffered post-abortion trauma for many years. Eventually, she found healing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Others have noted the threat some men pose to their pregnant partners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>An abortion facility security guard speaks out<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When employees at one abortion facility tried to pass a buffer zone law to keep pro-lifers away, the security guard who worked for them, Richard Seron, testified \u2013 in favor of the pro-lifers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said, &#8220;I stood toe-to-toe with Operation Rescue. I never found their behavior objectionable in any way.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to reporter <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian MacQuarrie:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[T]he former guard said, the group he considered most likely to become aggressive were the men who accompanied women to the clinic. During his time as a Preterm [abortion facility] guard, Seron said, two young men had to be disarmed of a club and a sharp &#8220;impaling&#8221; object as they escorted women into the clinics.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t the pro-lifers who were a threat to women coming in for abortions, Seron said \u2013 it was their partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Footnotes<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kathleen Winkler <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Crying Stops: Abortion, the Pain and the Healing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Northwestern Publishing House, 1992) 118<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid., 118\u2013 119<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid., 120<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid., 122<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid., 165<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid., 165-166<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian MacQuarrie \u201cGuard, clinic at odds at abortion hearing\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boston Globe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Apr 16, 1999<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibid.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as pro-abortion media bombards readers and viewers with stories from women who claim abortion was the best thing they ever did, the countless stories of women who regret their abortions are often buried \u2014 despite entire organizations, such as Silent No More, which give women suffering abortion trauma a voice and venue to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":192787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[18731,2305,3075,18732,12123],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women recall being coerced into abortions: &#039;I did what my doctor and boyfriend told me to do&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Coercion is often a factor in abortions. 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