"I had four abortions by the time I was 16"

[gam197]

I saw this on LifeNews.com and posted the link.

dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1039956/I-FOUR-abortions-time-I-16.html

Lucy Lanelly was just 12 years old when she had her first abortion…

Lucy was 16 when she met the man who is now her fiance.

Her mother was more than happy for Lucy to move into a rented house with him, relieved that her daughter seemed at last to be in a settled relationship.

Yet again, however, Lucy fell pregnant accidentally - this time, she says, when a condom failed.

Together she and Jack decided they were not ready to become parents, and Lucy underwent her fourth abortion, without telling anyone.

'This is the only abortion I felt bad about. It was because I was older and more aware of what I was doing. I felt guilty to have had so many abortions so young, and guilty that I was able to get pregnant so easily with babies I didn’t want while other women struggle for years to have a baby.

'I feel it was the right thing to do, but sometimes I feel selfish.

‘Jack knows about my other abortions, but he doesn’t like to talk about it. I wish I’d waited until I was in this relationship before I had sex.’

 

[stbruno]

This story is just sad. Regretably she still doesn’t understand what she has done. She says that she has little remorse for her past “terminations” because she said she wasn’t ready to become a parent. The good thing is she wants to share her mistakes with others in hopes that it will prevent someone else from doing the same thing.

I have 2 issues with her story. First, I believe that she still doesn’t understand that abortion is not the only answer for a teen who is pregnant. It certainly isn’t a viable solution for the baby whose life was taken away. She had a very real option, of choosing life…and allowing her baby to be adopted. Not only her first but her second, third and fourth babies. Secondly, her own mother must have had her as a teen because she died suddenly at the age of 39, and she already was in a dysfunctional family to begin with.
And being raised by a grandmother who never raised her mother in a healthy family was not an alternative either in my opinion. Too bad these people did not have access to real family planning, with a crisis center other than probably Planned Parenthood who encouraged abortion. And why wasn’t her pregnancy at the age of 11 reported to DCFS? I don’t get it?

I really believe this woman needs some serious counseling and also family counseling to help them understand all that is implied.

I really think we need to pray for this woman and her lost babies. As well as the men who fathered her children. Maybe her message will help others, but I really think she needs to help herself first, before making her self a poster child of what not to do.

 

[notsmart]

How could she do this, I thought there was an age restriciton on abortion in most of the world.?

 

[Ruthie]

‘I just wish other young girls would respect their bodies enough not to give them up to anybody.’

But that’s not what they get taught. They get taught “safe sex.” :crying:

Ruthie

 

[annem]

This story is just sad. Regretably she still doesn't understand what she has done. She says that she has little remorse for her past "terminations" because she said she wasn't ready to become a parent. The good thing is she wants to share her mistakes with others in hopes that it will prevent someone else from doing the same thing

A few comments. First, this was in the UK, where sex education is shoved down the throats of every child who enters school. So talking about condoms has, once again, proven utterly useless.

Second, I cannot agree with you enough that this story is so sad. And with the UK turning into a secular society, where is the help for young girls like this going to come from?

In the end, the only solution is religion, and a return of morality.

God bless, Annem