{"id":308759,"date":"2024-03-16T13:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=308759"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:38:13","slug":"he-paid-girlfriends-abortion-anger-regret-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/he-paid-girlfriends-abortion-anger-regret-shocked\/","title":{"rendered":"He paid for his girlfriend’s abortion at her request. Then her anger and regret shocked him."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Slaughter was just trying to be mindful of his college girlfriend\u2019s feelings when he gave her the money she requested for an abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Slaughter told Live Action News, \u201cShe told me she was pregnant and was determined to get the abortion. I didn\u2019t resist because I thought it must have been a hard decision for her. So, I went to the bank to get the money then took her to the hospital, but she didn\u2019t want me to stay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He called her the next day but was shocked to discover his girlfriend was infuriated with him, after doing exactly what she wanted him to do. <\/span>\u201cShe was yelling at me and there was all this heated exchange back and forth between us,\u201d Slaughter said. \u201cIt was a very confusing time. In retrospect, I realize she was angry with me for not trying to save our baby.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But while Slaughter didn\u2019t know much about abortion, the reality of what his girlfriend had done hit her full force afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Slaughter said, \u201cI always just thought that early in a pregnancy, it was just a blob of tissue. I didn\u2019t think of it as a baby. Despite my initial acquiescence, I was conflicted. I told my mother about the pregnancy and my girlfriend wanting to have the abortion, hoping she might intervene, but she said nothing. I thought she must think it\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, when Slaughter\u2019s sister experienced an unplanned pregnancy, she had originally decided to place her baby with an adoptive family, but this upset his mother. <\/span>\u201cMy sister kept her baby and my mother helped raise the child,\u201d Slaughter said. \u201cI felt some resentment toward her for not helping me. In my heart, I knew abortion was wrong and wanted my mother to step in. She was a Baptist minister\u2019s daughter and we had been close.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The bitter realization<\/b><\/p>\n

Eventually Slaughter and his girlfriend married but she never wanted to have more children. The marriage dissolved within a year. <\/span>\u201cWe never discussed the abortion,” Slaughter said. “Though she wanted the divorce, she kept in touch frequently.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Years later, she told Slaughter she\u2019d had a hysterectomy. The only baby she would ever have had been killed through abortion.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI felt guilty that she would never be a mother and blamed myself for relegating her to a life without children,\u201d Slaughter said. \u201cI felt like a failure as a man for not protecting her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When Slaughter remarried, his new wife converted to Catholicism and the issue of abortion came up. While he didn\u2019t consider himself pro-choice, he felt women should be able to make their own decisions regarding their bodies. But his mindset shifted dramatically when he, too, came into the Catholic Church and started studying its teachings on pro-life principles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Slaughter said, \u201cI recall hearing abortionists explain how a baby was ripped from the womb during the procedure and recognized this is a human being and I paid money to have my baby killed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n