{"id":310391,"date":"2024-04-17T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=310391"},"modified":"2024-04-30T21:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T02:45:53","slug":"father-abortion-regret-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/father-abortion-regret-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief and regret over his aborted child led him to homelessness and drug abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young and newlywed, Reg Platt and his wife were settling into married life when they learned they were expecting their first child. While Platt was happy about the impending birth of their child, his wife was less so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Platt told Live Action News, \u201cActually, it was quite a surprise that my wife got pregnant so soon because she thought she could never have children. Yet, she was more concerned with launching her acting career than she was with being a mother. She told me she wanted to have an abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While Platt was unhappy with her decision, he agreed to go along with the abortion<\/a> if that\u2019s what she wanted. He knew she had pinned her hopes on performing as a dancing Indian princess in an outdoor drama, and being a visibly pregnant woman would eliminate her from consideration for the role.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I look back, I realize I was abdicating any responsibility for my part in the abortion,\u201d Platt said.\u00a0 \u201cBut I was only 19 years old, and I believed I was doing it to save our marriage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He was fearful his fiercely independent and \u201cliberated\u201d wife might tell him \u201cgoodbye\u201d should he insist she carry the pregnancy to term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Platt drove his wife to the abortion facility, he was crying inside. The abortion seemed to put his marriage on shaky ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe started bickering and fighting more often,” he said. “Within six months our fledgling marriage had failed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

READ: Planned Parenthood learned a 16-year-old was being coerced to abort. What they said was unsettling.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

His emotions were in turmoil, and Platt lost the desire to live. He was also still in denial for his part in the abortion and in the disintegration of his marriage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was so depressed and angry,\u201d Platt said. \u201cI thought I was going crazy, but I never connected it to the abortion, but the soul can\u2019t be fooled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A life broken by abortion is littered with drug abuse and failed marriages<\/b><\/p>\n

As he stood in front of the bathroom mirror one day, he felt revulsion for the man he saw staring back at him. He wanted to end his anguish.<\/span><\/p>\n

Platt said, \u201cI was holding a razor above my wrist when I made eye contact with myself and for a flicker of a moment, saw Christ within me. I knew then that God still had plans for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He had left Houston and was now living in Dallas in search of a fresh start, but he soon realized that he could never escape problems of his own making. He couldn\u2019t hold a job and began abusing alcohol and drugs to numb the pain he\u2019d stuffed deep inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started to feel sorry for myself.\u201d Platt said.<\/span><\/p>\n

His life spiraling out of control, Platt found himself living first on the street, then with a squatter for a few months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While in Dallas, he had met another woman who was eight years his senior<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n