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BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING - I know this is a touchy subject, I know it is a heavily debated subject but please just for today can someone please let me know that I am not alone in all this that there are other people who feel the way I feel, that they regret it so much they wish they could change the past, that you would rather be in the ground yourself then take that possibility of life away, that you feel like you were almost coereced or convinced or something please please pease talk to me, I desperatley neeed to know Im not the only one that feel sthis guilty for what they have done...
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My best friend now got an abortion back when we were in college, she just met the guy, totally bad timing, etc. And she has gone thru major guilt just you wrote about, especially after she became a Christian. She wasn't coerced... but still tremendous guilt, imagining how old the child would be each year and she did later on marry the father, they're still together. She found some peace by praying about it and asking God to forgive her. That's her religious believes... believing God forgave her allowed her to forgive herself.
I hope you find some way to forgive yourself since you feel such guilt, and so you can make peace with a past you cannot go back and change.
i'm sure this was a decision you made with great difficulty. it's NEVER one made lightly. it's very easy tho, AFTER the fact to question and torture yourself as to whether u chose correctly. but u stated very VALID reasons why u were not in a good position or state of mind to be responsible for another life.
please don't torture yourself. do your best to be in the place where u can, someday...be able to handle this awesome responsibility. try and look forward, rather than behind.
i'm pro-choice...but at the same time...do NOT take this lightly, nor do i think most pro-choice people do.
but..i sure never saw the people protesting in front of women's clinics...lined up, instead....in front of the children's home near my house to adopt..unwanted, abused, neglected or just plain "throw away" children, rescued (?) from poverty and horrid conditions.
i think i would respect the "pro-lifers" a whole helluva lot more...if i saw them lining up to adopt the children already HERE and suffering.
My husband volunteers at such a shelter and sees 1st hand these poor unwanted children awaiting foster care....that may never even come. raised in "the system"...the system, i think...that guilts some women into having these children, and then leaving them to fend for themselves once they accomplish this "noble" goal.
they don't see the result.
my advice to u is...look ahead...but remember...so that when u DO have children..u will be ready..mentally. protect yourself until that time arrives...and give yourself a break, darlin' as you're far from alone.
xoxo Di