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Sharon
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Date Posted: 11/21/06 8:44am
Hey...WOW!!!! This is so exciting. I am SO happy for you. You will NEVER regret not having an abortion. I can promise you that from personal experience.
I've got to tell you that I'm writing with tears in my eyes right now. I was in college when I got pregnant. My boyfriend wanted me to abort. I didn't. He left my life. But, I have my incredible, loving, awesome, funny, smart, loyal, dear son - who's going to be 27 Dec. 8!!!!! I am SO grateful that I didn't do something against my heart just to please my boyfriend and possibly keep him around (in retrospect I know he would have left anyway and I would have been in the same boat as so many other women.) I loved him, but he wasn't worth killing my son for. That sounds blunt...and it didn't feel as stark as that at the time - it felt like maybe I would be doing it for both of us somehow (having an abortion), but I, like you, knew I just couldn't do it. Now that I look back, I realize he was asking me to snuff out the very existence of this precious human being to make HIS life easier. A horribly chilling thought. I would have lived with killing my child AND losing him. I can't imagine the emotional hell that would have been.
Anyway, as fate would have it, as I'm reading your message Harry Chapin's song, "Taxi" is playing the background. That song was one I specifically remember listening to while I was pregnant and trying to go to school (I got pregnant my freshman year of college at Univ. of Missouri- Kansas City. I finished that degree and ended up getting my masters, too! ;-)
So, listening to that song and reading about what you're going through...it's very powerful. I truly feel we are cross people's paths for a reason. I want you to know that I will help you in any way I can. What college/university are you going to? If they DON'T have daycare at the institution, we can work with Feminists for Life to try to help them get one started in time for you! (That's one of the goals Feminists for Life have - to make sure that ALL colleges and universities have daycare programs and support for pregnant and mothering students, since college students are the at the highest risk of abortion. There's been a 30% reduction in the number of abortions among college-age women since they started this outreach in 1994)
Take time to simply be by yourself and sense your prcious little one inside you. It is a very special time.
God bless you.
Sharon
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