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Maria Mayela Banks was 10 years old when she migrated from Mexico to Arizona where her father had found work. She tried desperately to assimilate into American culture while trying to shed her Mexican heritage. She couldn\u2019t have known the dramatic turn her life would take as a young woman, putting her on a path that would lead to the inside of an abortion business.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banks told Live Action News, \u201cI couldn\u2019t speak English at first and my parents didn\u2019t want anyone to know where we came from, so I felt isolated. As I grew older, I started reading romance novels that depicted exciting sexual escapades and listening to what my classmates were saying so I could become like them. I just wanted to have fun, but I was so naive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When she was 16 years old, she babysat for a neighbor\u2019s children. While there, she was exposed to pornography. <\/span>\u201cIt was such a vulnerable time in my life and my innocence was being stolen,\u201d Banks said.<\/span><\/p>\n

After graduating from cosmetology school, she shortened her name to \u201cMay\u201d and took a job two hours away from her parents\u2019 home. She became involved with a young man stationed at a nearby military base. The night before he was to leave for an overseas assignment, the couple had sex one last time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banks said, \u201cI learned that dating meant having sex, but I didn\u2019t understand what I was doing. We weren\u2019t in a serious relationship. I just fell for the feminist lies and believed everything I read in romance novels. I thought I was becoming who others wanted me to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She never counted on becoming pregnant. On the advice of her roommate, Banks had gone to Planned Parenthood to get birth control pills, but when she began taking the pills, she experienced something she didn’t plan on.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI kept throwing up, so I went back to Planned Parenthood,\u201d Banks said. \u201cIt was then I found out I was expecting a child. I was so scared and knew my parents would be hurt. I would have to own up to the lifestyle I had been living.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The woman at Planned Parenthood told her there was an \u2018easy\u2019 solution: she could terminate the pregnancy, and nobody would ever know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banks said, \u201cI was very hesitant. I asked if the procedure would hurt and if it was legal, and the woman told me I could pay extra to be sedated and assured me it was legal. As I wavered in my decision, she got frustrated with me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Pressured to comply, Banks made the abortion appointment, yet failed to show up. She says that\u2019s when the woman from Planned Parenthood called her to ensure she rescheduled.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I had to get money for the sedation,\u201d Banks said. \u201cA guy I worked with took pity on me. He drove me to the appointment and his mother provided the money I needed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She signed a paper she didn\u2019t read and was given the sedative. She remembers \u201cblanking out\u201d \u2014 but imagined that she heard her baby screaming at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt as if I was bound to a chair sitting in a dark room. The mother in me kicked in and I screamed for them to stop but didn\u2019t know if they could hear me,” Banks said. “I felt helpless to keep my baby from being torn apart inside of me. I was experiencing the horror of abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As she waited for her friend to pick her up afterward, she cried tears of sorrow. She was bleeding so heavily that she was transported to her friend\u2019s foster mother\u2019s home nearby, where she lay on the floor in agony until the children came home from school.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfterward, we went back to Northern Arizona to his mother\u2019s house,\u201d Banks said. \u201cThere, I laid on the floor for days until the bleeding stopped.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the beauty shop, Banks again fell ill. She drove to the ER where doctors discovered an infection raging inside of her womb; they prescribed her antibiotics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctor seemed to be disappointed in me,\u201d Banks said. \u201cHe just kept shaking his head. Later, I started cramping and went into the bathroom. That\u2019s when I saw the remains of my baby come rushing out. All I could do was flush the toilet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Traumatized, Banks feared being alone. She recalls going out drinking and partying with anyone just to have a companion.<\/span><\/p>\n

A new creation in Christ spurs forgiveness and a supernatural encounter<\/b><\/p>\n

One day, Banks went with a friend who was a manager of a Christian rock band to attend a concert at a church. Afterward, at the altar call, Banks stepped forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banks said, \u201cThe people at the church were so nice; it was such a sweet place. I had gone in as a lifeless 21-year-old woman who felt she had committed an unpardonable sin and became a new creation in Christ. I later got baptized there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually Banks married a man with two children and grew in her relationship with Christ. Despite her desire to start a family of her own, she was unable to get pregnant again.<\/span><\/p>\n

At church, she heard about the March for Life. She wanted to attend, but her husband was against the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAngry, I shut myself in our bedroom and cried,\u201d Banks said. \u201cI knew he was just trying to be protective. It was while I was in that room, that all the memories I had suppressed throughout the years came flooding back. I admitted to God that I had rejected the gift of life by walking into that abortion clinic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One by one, Banks forgave everyone instrumental in her abortion just as Jesus had forgiven her. Banks prayed for the man who fathered her child.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banks said, \u201cI [had] tried to call him when I found out I was pregnant but just got his commander. He eventually came back to Arizona before moving to Hawaii and came to see me at the beauty shop. I was hiding from the truth then, so I gave him the cold shoulder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As Banks released her resentment and pain, she experienced a vision of a trash can, and felt as if a spiritual being were compelling her to look inside it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was stunned at the cruelty of being taunted,\u201d Banks said. \u201cI knew I was supposed to look inside but feared seeing my dead baby, yet I was given the strength to do so. As I did, a beautiful light came up toward me. I believe that was the essence of my baby radiating love for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, she felt set free from the guilt that had plagued her. Now, she could grieve properly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banks said, \u201cI asked God if he could someday make America an abortion-free nation. I heard him say, \u2018I can do it;\u2019 I believe it because we serve a supernatural God. I am proof of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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