{"id":321565,"date":"2024-11-13T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321565"},"modified":"2024-11-13T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T06:34:00","slug":"women-regret-abortions-face-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-regret-abortions-face-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Broken pieces’: Women who regret abortions come ‘Face to Face’ with abortion survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Action’s latest video series, “Face to Face,” pairs people who were once on opposite sides of the abortion issue to speak to one another candidly about the toll abortion has taken on their lives and the lives of others. In the latest installment, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose facilitates a discussion between two abortion survivors and two women who deeply regret their abortions.<\/p>\n

Emily Rarick had two abortions as a teen. “I never felt OK with what I did,” she told the group. “I always felt a lot of shame… I never denied that my children were human beings; I just allowed myself to dehumanize them and told myself that it was living, but it wasn’t a baby.”<\/p>\n

Gigi Davis said she, too, was a teen when she became pregnant, right before she was to leave for college. Fear was the primary motivator behind her abortion. Once inside the abortion facility, she said she remembers hearing the sound of the suction vacuum ending her child’s life. Davis said that shortly after the appointment, she had a dream in which a baby was crying out, “Mom, why? Don’t hurt me, don’t kill me.” Though the appointment was traumatizing, Davis found herself unable to break the cycle of fear and shame she was in, undergoing a total of five abortions. Finally, after crying out to God for help, she found a pro-life organization that helped her begin along the road to healing.<\/p>\n

Both Rarick and Davis now share their stories to help others find that same healing.<\/p>\n