Jenny Foster and her husband were overjoyed when she learned she was pregnant. But when an ultrasound revealed foetal abnormalities, they choose to abort their baby boy, Nathan, over two decades ago.

When the 16-week ultrasound revealed various abnormalities, a neonatal radiologist instructed Jenny and her husband to abort their son.

“It was a soul-crushing decision to make, to take the life of the son I wanted so badly”, Jenny explains.

After being urged to abort her child, Jenny, after much agonising, chose abortion.

“It was heart-wrenching”, she says, made worse because, even at 14 weeks, she could feel her son moving in her womb. But the abortion was not the end of her trauma.

Almost three months later, Jenny found out that the abortion had been botched. “I was walking around all that time with some of my son’s body parts still inside me.”

Although all her son’s remains were eventually removed, the procedure brought extra trauma, both physically and psychologically. As well as developing PTSD, Jenny’s cervix was damaged, leading to further surgeries. Even then, she later developed thyroid cancer and fibromyalgia.

Abortion decision “affected every area of my life”

In the aftermath of her abortion, Jenny also suffered from grief and regret about the death of her son. “I wanted this baby, I loved this baby, yet I consented to ending his life… It was hard to forgive myself for the decision I had made that affected every area of my life.”

Sadly, abortion grief and regret also impacted her marriage, which ended in divorce.

But Jenny slowly came to terms with the abortion. An important part of the process of recovery for Jenny, an author, was writing a book, “Natty’s Pond”, published last year, which detailed the anguish of abortion regret and the other harmful results that are kept undercover by abortion apologists.

“I wanted to reveal everything that I had experienced… I didn’t want to sugarcoat anything”, Jenny says.

Her book was published on what would have been Nathan’s 21st birthday. Jenny now uses her own story and experience to highlight the pain of women suffering from abortion grief and its other terrible consequences.

No more “suffering in silence”

SPUC’s Michael Robinson, Executive Director (Public Affairs and Legal Services), said: “Jenny’s story is profoundly moving and a testament to the suffering in silence that many women go through because of abortion.

“Too many medical professionals treat abortion as a default response to challenges faced during pregnancy. Many mothers and fathers have a terrible choice forced on them by a societal acceptance of abortion, which, unbeknown to many families, may have terrible consequences for women.

“In Jenny’s case, she overcame this terrible experience, which she was not prepared for, and now warns other mothers about the agonies of post-abortion grief, regret and physical trauma. We must do the same.”