"J's Story
I was 15 years old when I met my husband we were married when I was 18 and at 19 I had our first child at 20 I found out that I was pregnant again, I was overwhelmed but the thought of abortion did not enter my mind untill one year later when I was pregnant with our third child. I was devistated! We were young and were barely making it financially. I was pretty much alone with the kids all of the time since my husband worked many hours. I never really had an opinion about abortion being right or wrong, or what it really was, but it seemed at that time that abortion was the only answer . My husband thought it was best, our family wanted me to do it. I made the appointment and my husband drove me to the clinic. I was sobbing in the car and didn't want to get out,I instinctually knew it was wrong and I really did want my baby but I know that I would have done it, when a pro-life advocate approached our car wanting to share info with us. My husbands first words to her were not very kind. But she was truly loving and after speaking with her and viewing pro-life pictures of babys, we changed our minds and left.I was soooo very relieved, all of the things that seemed so to make the situation so desperate, sort of just dissappeared at that moment. I am so thankful for our beautiful daughter, I cannot imagine my life without her. I struggled with guilt for a long time for even considering aborting her. The lady we met at the clinic that day is a born again Christian. She quickly became good friends with our family and as a result of her faithfulness and testimony we too have accepted The Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. That was over 13 years ago and since that time the Lord has blessed us with 3 more children ( I'm am now pregnant with our 6th) Every one of them are a wonderful blessing from Him.
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