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Rape Pregnancy and Later Abortion: Two Stories
A post-abortive woman and a former abortion worker tell their stories.
In a 2021 book by Janet Morana, a rape victim describes the trauma she endured after her partial-birth abortion.
The Story of a Rape Pregnancy
Christina from Alberta, Canada, was a substance abuser who was raped at seventeen. She hid her rape pregnancy for months until her mother found out. According to Christina, her mother “promptly made it clear to me that I would not be ‘keeping it.”
Because Christina was so far along, her abortion took three days to complete. The abortion facility told her nothing about the procedure.
It was a partial-birth abortion. This type of abortion became illegal in the US in 2007 after the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Carhart upheld a ban against it. I will discuss partial-birth abortions in a minute, but for now, I want to talk about Christina’s experience.
Christina says:
During the abortion, I experienced pain like I’ve never felt before and I could feel my little baby crying out for help. She did not want to die. I began to scream and cry, but to no avail. The nurse…told me to be quiet.