{"id":331594,"date":"2025-05-21T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=331594"},"modified":"2025-05-21T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:20:13","slug":"years-after-abortion-vision-baby-whole-forgives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/years-after-abortion-vision-baby-whole-forgives\/","title":{"rendered":"Years after her abortion, she had a vision of her baby: ‘She’s whole… She forgives you’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A month away from graduating high school, Michelle Greco’s unplanned pregnancy led her down a path of abortion, destructive behavior, an abusive marriage, a divorce… and later, a mission to help other women heal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Greco told Live Action News, \u201cI was going through a breakup with my former boyfriend and partying with another guy who had been my best friend. I didn\u2019t have a regular menstrual cycle and was raised in a strict religious home, not being educated on the reproductive process \u2014 so I was pretty ignorant about sex.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A friend took Greco to the local health department where she took a pregnancy test.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt was positive,\u201d Greco said. \u201cI scheduled an appointment with Planned Parenthood to determine my options.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A second-trimester abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

To her shock, she was informed by Planned Parenthood staff that she was 20 weeks pregnant and was advised to schedule an abortion quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I told my ex-boyfriend… he freaked out,\u201d Greco said. \u201cHe did not want our child and told me I\u2019d have to pay for the abortion if I waited any longer.\u201d <\/span>Greco felt even more pressure when he informed her he\u2019d resent her and would cease to love her if she didn\u2019t get the abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When she arrived at the facility in Nevada with her boyfriend, he remained in the car. She was ushered into a waiting room and was asked if she was certain she wanted the abortion \u2014 not a typical question asked by abortion facility staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Greco said, \u201cThe ladies were so nice, it felt like I was in a doctor\u2019s office rather than an abortion clinic. Once in the procedure room, they gave me some medication to relax me.\u201d <\/span>She remembers a nurse standing near her head, comforting her while the doctor in a surgical mask who never looked at her turned on a suction machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a whirling mobile of birds above on the ceiling,\u201d Greco said. \u201cI felt very weird, like I was going to pass out. I couldn\u2019t seem to get my breath.\u201d <\/span>Afterward, the nurse helped Greco get up and as she did so, she could see a bucket filled with blood on the side of the exam table. <\/span>\u201cI was told I\u2019d have some bleeding and that I would need to go to the ER if it got bad. I stayed in the dark recovery room to eat some fruit before leaving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Greco has little recollection of her actual abortion procedure beyond these flashes of memory, but at that stage of pregnancy, a D&E abortion<\/a> (which involves the use of forceps as well as suction) would have likely been committed.<\/p>\n

Greco said that upon returning home, her boyfriend dropped her off at her grandparents\u2019 home, told her she was a whore, and said he never wanted to see her again.<\/span><\/p>\n

After that, Greco learned that one of her male friends had been looking for her. \u201cHe knew what happened and was upset,” she said. “He told me he would have helped me raise the baby even though it wasn\u2019t his. Hearing this just broke my heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But Greco still did not comprehend she had been carrying a living human being. Her friend compassionately explained to her what she had done. <\/span>\u201cI felt so much remorse,\u201d Greco said. <\/span>She turned to alcohol and drugs to numb her emotional pain.<\/span><\/p>\n