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Some of you who are reading this have lost a family member to abortion. You may have friends who have participated in an abortion. Or perhaps you have had an abortion yourself.
If this is the case, you know firsthand how deeply abortion changes you and how many people are impacted by it. Often, after I deliver a college lecture or tell my story in a parish, I hear stories that reveal this wide ripple effect. Here are some of the wrenching personal experiences that people have shared with me (names and identifying details have been changed).
When my girlfriend told me she was pregnant, I told her I’d help her with whatever she decided. She said she was having an abortion and that was it. I didn’t feel good about it, but I was determined to support her decision. I wanted our relationship to last. I thought having the abortion like she wanted would help. But we were both changed afterward. I tried to keep us together. I tried so…
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