I received the following from the 40 Days campaign in Cherry Hill. This was reported by Jennifer one day late last week:
I came back to the clinic at 12 noon and stayed until 3:30. Around 3:00pm a lady was walking out of the clinic toward the sidewalk closest to the drug store. I ran to give her a flyer. She put her hands up and said, "No, I'm not here for that" quite a few times. She then said, "I am only doing a good deed to bring someone here". I didn't argue with that and let her keep talking. She then saw the magazine in my hand and said, "Can I have one of them? I just want to see because I had an abortion when I was 12 yrs old". Then she saw slipping out of the flyers the bookmark with the development of the babies in my hand and asked to see it. She told me her whole story of how she was raped at gun point by a neighbor then forced to abort by her mother. She said, "I hate my mom for that."
She is 28 yrs old has 3 children and has never been married and said she is trying to have more children and will adopt or be a foster parent if she can't conceive soon. Then in another sentence told me how hard it is to raise children as a single mother.
I told her that it is a post abortive syndrom to want to keep having more babies and that it is an attempt to replace the baby she lost in abortion. She realized I was right and that that is what she is doing. I gave her post abortive materials for her and for her friend in the abortion clinic. I told her that her friend will be hurting when she comes out. She thought for a minute then looking toward the clinic where her friend was inside she said, "Oh, yeh, I WAS hurting after my abortion". She said her abortion was 16 yrs ago and after the abortion she never talked to anyone about it and this was the first time she told anyone or talked about it. I told her not to try to hide it in the back of her mind and forget it happened because it doesn't work that way. She has to find healing and has to look up the websites and phone #'s for abortion healing. She agreed. She said she did drugs, tried to kill herself several times and was drinking. She has a 13 yr old daughter that is disappearing from home. She said, "I will not do to her what my Mother did to me" (force her to abort).
I believe she was remembering that her abortion hurt her as she was opening up and retelling her life story to me. She said she will tell her friend in the abortion clinic that she had an abortion when she was 12 yrs old and she will talk to her friend about abortion, which was a change from telling me in the beginning of our conversion that she was doing a good deed. She hugged me and said that she was so so glad to have met me and been able to talk with me.
I went to church afterwards and thought, "I can't wait for Heaven so I can see how meeting and talking with this lady may have been the beginning of finding healing."
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