Abused Woman Was Dragged Into Abortion Clinic to Kill Her Baby
Coerced abortions happen, and when they do, they take a terrible emotional toll.
Coerced Abortion and Abortion Trauma
One study found that 74 percent of post-abortive women were coerced into their abortions by someone else.
The sample in that study was drawn from women who regretted their abortions and sought healing at pregnancy centers, so the numbers may not be representative of all post-abortive people. But it’s still significant.
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Others have noted the high prevalence of coerced abortions among those who seek help for post-abortion trauma. Clare Bremner, a counselor with the Abortion Recovery Care and Helpline in Scotland, wrote:
In my long experience, typically 75 percent of the women who summon up the courage and bravery to make a call for help regarding an abortion were pressurised or bullied into having one, in almost all cases by the man involved.
It may be that pregnant people coerced into abortions are more likely to regret them and suffer emotionally as a result.
Pro-lifer witnesses coerced abortion
In his 2020 book, longtime pro-life activist John Cavanaugh–O’Keefe described something he witnessed while sidewalk counseling at Hillcrest abortion facility in Southeast Washington.
About a dozen pro-abortion activists were blocking his way and trying to prevent him from talking to people visiting the abortion facility. Then:
A car pulled into the lot, and a man got out of the driver’s seat. He went around to the passenger side, and talked a bit, then shouted a bit, and then wrenched the door open, grabbed the woman sitting there, and pulled her out. She screamed and cried, but he dragged her toward the door.
Cavanaugh-O’Keefe tried to talk to the couple, but pro-abortion activists prevented it:
I tried to speak up a bit, although I can’t remember what I said. The pro-choice group blocked my way. If either the man or the woman tussling their way to the door noticed anything from the sidewalk, they probably heard just noise.
The man won: he dragged her inside. I don’t know anything more about their story; as far as I know, they were in there for a few hours, long enough to complete her planned procedure.
He notes:
[The pro-abortion activists] watched the man drag a woman inside – physically, no metaphor here – and they had nothing to say about it. They took the man’s side against the woman’s choice.
Women pressured into aborting twins
Tragically, many post-abortive women have spoken about being coerced. One woman had two abortions with the same father.
When she became pregnant a third time, she wanted to have her baby, but:
He told me no, it was better to abort. We scheduled an appointment, and I still was trying to convince him to let me keep the baby. He told me it would be better not to have it.
When she got to the abortion facility, they did an ultrasound and discovered she was pregnant with twins. She again tried pleading with her husband, saying:
I sat down beside him and begged him to let me keep the babies. He convinced me we could not afford them. I went back inside and killed my twins.
Less than a year later, she was divorced, and her husband was with someone else.
She deeply regrets her abortions, saying, “I have paid the price dearly, and even though God has forgiven me, I still struggle with a life sentence of guilt.”
LifeNews Note: Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies. This article originally appeared on Sarah Terzo’s Substack. You can read more of her articles here. File photo.
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