Catherine Glenn Foster, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, has spoken about how she was “pushed” to abort all her children, despite having “four viable pregnancies”. “I gave in and did abort my first”, she said, “but I fought for the lives of the other three, and all of them are thriving today”.
Foster, recalling her own experiences of pregnancy, the first being when she was a 19-year-old student, says that “nothing felt right” when she walked into the abortion clinic where she received “no information, no care, no compassion”.
There was only pressure “to seek an abortion” from her “family, friends and medical professionals”.
“I was still making up my mind, and I asked to view the ultrasound they performed to see how far along I was. The technician refused. It was against their policy. Nothing about that day restored my choice, my autonomy or my sense of empowerment. They were just stripped from me over and over. I aborted my first child that day. And that decision has been with me every day since.”
She was also encouraged to abort her youngest daughter since she was shown to be at risk of Down syndrome.
“My doctor said I should consider abortion. I knew I could not… I chose life for my now-13-year-old daughter… a testament to the amazing things that can happen by choosing motherhood even when you’re scared.”
Foster’s daughter was born healthy.
Evoking her own experience, and regretting the abortion of her first child, Foster says that “no woman should be pressured to choose abortion… Let’s support women, not push them towards the violence and neglect of abortion.”
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