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Nothing Empowering
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Meg
Ohio,
United States
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Due to weather or travel problems, many of the people who planned on sharing their testimony at the March for Life in Washington DC in January 2016 were unable to attend. The testimony below is what they had planned on sharing at the event.
My name is Meg Perez. I am 50 years old.
In 2007, at age 41, I found myself pregnant. I was newly divorced, a single Mom to a toddler. In the last three years of my marriage, I lost four babies to miscarriage. So, for me, this pregnancy was good news.
But the father of my child was not excited and told me he would not support me emotionally, or financially. He told me I had to have an abortion. I felt trapped, emotionally and spiritually.
Instead of fighting those lies, I bought stock in them. All of them. And that’s when the SHAME kicked in. At the time, I didn’t see my child as a Blessing, but rather a challenge. It didn’t matter that I identified myself as Pro Life. It didn’t matter that I had lived the last 23 years, as a birth mother, the poster child for Life, having chosen to give life and make loving adoption plans for my first born, my son, in 1985. None of that mattered. I was desperate. I pushed to have it done as soon as I could, before I would change my mind.
The morning of my abortion, the waiting room was full. None of the girls would look at each other. Shame blanketed the room. The abortion clinic atmosphere was dark and cold. There was no love there. God does not live there.
I had a suction abortion. My daughter was nearly 8 weeks old when the abortionist pulled her body from mine. It is a sound I will never forget. As soon as the procedure began, my tears began to fall. I regretted it. I was heartbroken. My soul was tortured and I was in such pain – emotional, physical and spiritual. The physical pain was beyond anything I had experienced before. I cried out in pain. And instead of the “care” they say they give to women, I was told by my abortionist to “shut up”. At the time I felt I deserved that.
I left that clinic with an empty belly, a hollow cavity once full of Life. I could not stop weeping.
A darkness descended upon me, a complete separation from God. I can only describe it as the Darkest Night of my Soul. I wandered aimlessly, unable to be present and fully love my son.
After a lifetime of loving God fiercely…I hid my face from him. He knew my sin, yet He continued, in His Mercy, to call me to Him.
More than five years after my abortion, I had a life changing encounter at the foot of the Cross of Jesus Christ, where I found Mercy, Grace, and Redemption. Thank you, Jesus.
I have since completed a post-abortive healing program with SaveOne and am Forgiven and Set Free.
Some will say that abortion is a woman’s right, that abortion is a solution and that it empowers women. Let me tell you what abortion does to women… it destroys them. It takes the life of their beautiful child, and it steals their soul.
There is NOTHING empowering about that. And this is why I am SILENT NO MORE.
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