What Abortion Regret Tells Us
Why do we want to discuss abortion regret? Obviously, whether someone regrets an action or not doesn’t determine if that action was good. Can you imagine if we based criminality on the degree of regret? What if an arsonist burned down a building but didn’t regret it? Naturally, that wouldn’t negate the criminality or the violence of the action.
So why do we talk about abortion regret?
It's not our justification for why abortion is bad. Abortion is bad whether someone regrets it or not.
But it is an indicator of a deeper, dire tragedy happening with abortion.
Women are being lied to—being told it’s a simple solution to their problems. Women are being coerced and pushed towards a decision that they wouldn’t otherwise make. And women are being conned by the abortion industry which promises them that ‘it’s not a human.’
Abortion regret isn’t the factor that makes abortion bad. It’s the factor that points to a deeper deception, an indicator that vulnerable women are being preyed upon by an opportunistic and predatory industrial machine.
Of course, this isn’t true for all women—there are some out there who are perfectly happy to commit murder. But the vast majority of women who seek abortion aren’t cold blooded murderers. You probably already know this, too. You actually probably know a woman who’s had an abortion. And if you’re shaking your head, there’s actually a good chance you do know a woman who’s had an abortion, you just don’t know she had one. And either way, she’s not a crazy psychopathic murderer, is she? That’s precisely the point.
Abortion regret is a heartbreaking reminder that good-hearted people can be driven to make a terrible mistake by coercion, manipulation, and deception.
So many gut-wrenching stories are shared of women who obtained an abortion at a young age because of familial pressure, threats, and coercion. Threatened that they’d be left alone, forced to fend for themselves, or kicked out to the streets, they do what their parents or boyfriend order them to do, terrified of what will happen to them if they dare disobey.
I think the most sickening are the testimonies of women who only realized what was happening when they saw their child. Live Action does a series called I Saw My Baby, which shares the tear jerking stories of women who held their dying children in their hands. They were assured it was a simple procedure, just a tissue removal—it’s not a human, it’s just a clump of cells, like a tumor.
These are lies coming directly from the professionals we’re supposed to be allowed to trust. We’re told they know what they’re talking about, they have out best interests at heart, they’re going to help us. And yet these women learned, in the worst way possible, that this isn’t true. Sometimes, health-care is about money, the bottom dollar no matter what the human cost.
My heart breaks for the women who were deceived. I can’t even begin to imagine the pain that must bring.
Please, share the truth about abortion! Save women from this terrible mistake—a mistake they can’t undo. We know the truth. We have an obligation to share it as far and as fast as we can!
If you or someone you know regrets their abortion, please know that help and healing are available! Forgiveness is possible 🙏
Here are some resources for anyone who might need them:
https://supportafterabortion.com/
https://www.enteringcanaan.com/
http://hopeafterabortion.com/
https://www.rachelsvineyard.org/
http://nationalhelpline.org/
http://optionline.org/
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