{"id":291981,"date":"2023-05-31T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=291981"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:33:05","slug":"cindy-multiple-abortions-destroys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cindy-multiple-abortions-destroys\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy’s multiple abortions taught her that abortion ‘destroys’ instead of empowering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By most standards, 19-year-old Cindy Collins was a na\u00efve college student when she faced an unplanned pregnancy. It was 1973 and she was unaware of anything outside her immediate sphere of daily living. She didn\u2019t know much about the women\u2019s movement or the effort to legalize abortion nationwide through legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I knew at the time was that I was confused and afraid,” Collins told Live Action News. “Here I was in a relationship with my first boyfriend and just a freshman in college. My roommate suggested I go to Planned Parenthood and they would help me.\u201d<\/p>\n

A survivor of childhood sexual trauma, Collins dreaded the possibility she\u2019d have to leave college to live with her parents. She was desperate for a solution, and Planned Parenthood appeared to be the answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce there, they told me my baby was just a clump of tissue,\u201d Collins said. \u201cWe were given the option of going to D.C. or New York to have the abortion. The counselor told me in a few weeks Roe<\/em> would be law and abortion would be legal everywhere, not just in a few states. She seemed pleased about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins\u2019 boyfriend borrowed some money, and they jetted to D.C. Once there, the shuttle took them to the facility where Collins joined forty other women in similar circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey demonstrated how an abortion was done using a model,” Collins recalled. “I remember once I was in the room, the severe tugging and intense pain. It took about seven minutes. The procedure was cold and done by an anonymous doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the waiting room, lying on a gurney bleeding heavily, Collins could hear women crying. She felt a mixture of relief and sorrow. Shortly afterward, her relationship with her boyfriend ended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew our relationship had changed the moment I walked out the door of the clinic,\u201d Collins said. \u201cThe act of sex had created our child but also resulted in the worst pain when we decided to kill our baby through abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n