Mar 182010
Dear Sr. Keehan,
I have seen the devastating effect that abortion has in the life of the women I worked with as the director of a pregnancy care organization. Too many times, when the women had an abortion, it affected their lives forever. Drugs, alcohol, an inability to parent future children or form healthy relationships were exhibited all too often.
Once, when counseling with a woman who exhibited Many signs of Post-Abortion Syndrome, I out right asked her if she had ever had an abortion. She looked at me with wide eyes of shock, and asked me how I knew. I explained to her how all the signs I saw reflected in her life were all signs of Post-Abortion trauma. It was like a light turned on in her mind.
Her mother had forced her to have her abortion. And it damaged her life, her ability to parent her current child…everything.
This story is common. Different faces. Different combinations of a living hell that they live with…and our society lives with as well.
In effect, this bill will put me in the situation of providing women with abortions…and I will be responsible for the damage it causes to their lives. Yes, it kills their baby, but it kills them just as well.
Please read the stories at http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org and you will get a small glimpse of the tragedy of abortion in our nation.
Please reconsider your support of this bill. Reform of health care, yes. But not this way.
Patrice Egging: Music and Ministry
www.patriceegging.com
