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The\u00a0book\u00a0Short of a Miracle<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 by Crystal Pitrois tells the true story of\u00a0Tina Torry\u00a0 and her daughter Heidi, who survived an abortion<\/a> while she was in her mother’s womb.<\/p>\n

Tina Torry (then Tina Huffman) went for an abortion at age 17. She found out later that her daughter survived the abortion procedure that was meant to kill her in the womb. Torry and her daughter would go on to become pro-life activists, reaching out to women at clinics and helping post-abortive women heal. But before embracing the pro-life cause, Torry had\u00a0another\u00a0abortion\u00a0and then\u00a0chose to have an\u00a0unnecessary D & C, which ended her third pregnancy.<\/p>\n

At the time of her second abortion, Torry was still pro-choice. She recalls being in the recovery room with all the women who, like her, had just had an abortion. All the women were crying. The book’s author, Crystal Pitrois, tells the story:<\/p>\n

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Girls were walking around the room crying. Not hiding their tears. They couldn\u2019t hide them. Their tears were too real. Their hearts broken. \u2026Had they aborted their babies like she had the first time? In an effort to make everyone happy? To do what everyone wanted them to? Maybe they were 17 and felt they didn\u2019t have another option. Possibly they had fathers who wouldn\u2019t love them if they were pregnant. Perhaps their boyfriends had left them when they found out. Or maybe their husbands had not wanted them to have a child. \u2026Did they have regrets?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pitrois paints a picture of suffering women. The women in the clinic were feeling grief and loss. They were not rejoicing, glad\u00a0to be\u00a0free of\u00a0their pregnancies. They weren’t happily embracing their “right to choose.” Instead, they were in mourning . Some of them may have understood, perhaps for the first time, that they were mothers who had just lost their children. \u00a0No amount of pro-choice rhetoric could turn these women’s tears into empowerment.<\/p>\n

Torry found herself crying as well:<\/p>\n

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[Tina Torry] realized that she, herself, had tears streaming down her face. She wasn\u2019t sure why she was crying. She had wanted an abortion. She and her husband had decided. And still, she was crying.\u2026 I\u2019m so relieved.\u00a0<\/em>It\u2019s done. I don\u2019t have to worry about having the baby<\/em>. Those words she kept repeating over and over in her head, but she couldn\u2019t shake the extreme sadness \u2026. She wept without inhibition. The nurse turned to the other nurse and said in a voice filled with pity or annoyance\u2026\u201cShe\u2019s crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tina wanted to scream, \u201cWe\u2019re all crying. Why are we all crying?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These moments in the recovery room illustrate the reality that pro-choicers are so desperate to hide – \u00a0abortion does not empower women. It is a violent, intrusive procedure that robs women of their children and leaves them emotionally\u00a0broken.<\/p>\n

Although Torry soldiered on and tried to put the experience behind her, she eventually faced her own complicity in the deaths of her children and was truly sorry for her abortions. \u00a0Her desire to help postabortion women and save babies is what inspired her to tell her story, in the hopes that other women would not make the same mistakes.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Torry and Heidi and their pro-life work here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Crystal Pitrois Short of a Miracle<\/em> (Greenville, South Carolina: Ambassador Emerald International, 2002) 55-56<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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