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<\/source><\/picture>There are countless testimonies of women\u00a0feeling<\/a> a \u201cdeep emptiness\u201d or \u201ctrauma\u201d after an abortion. Others have experienced nightmares and depression. From mothers who\u2019ve gone through the procedure, we know that it\u2019s painful emotionally, mentally, and physically. However, testimonies have also revealed how the difficulty and agony of abortion is compounded when it\u2019s done chemically, away from the doctor\u2019s office. Pop star Britney Spears drove that reality home in her recently released her memoir, The Woman in Me,<\/em> where she details her horrifying experience with a do-it-yourself abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the book, she disclosed her pregnancy with fellow pop singer Justin Timberlake. Although she felt deep love for Timberlake, according to Spears, he made it clear he was not interested in being a father. \u201cHe said we weren\u2019t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Concerned about Timberlake\u2019s disapproval, Spears agreed to have an abortion, even though in her words, \u201cIf it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it.\u201d<\/p>\n Afraid of the public catching wind of her pregnancy \u2014 much less her abortion \u2014 she took it upon herself to carry out the abortion at home. She swallowed the pills, and it wasn\u2019t long before Spears says she experienced \u201cexcruciating pain.\u201d She wrote about \u201csobbing and screaming\u201d and described it as \u201cone of the most agonizing things\u201d she had experienced in her life.<\/p>\n Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, shared with The Washington Stand, \u201cMy heart breaks for Britney Spears and the countless other women who have been coerced into having an abortion. In a country where a child can be killed until the moment of birth, the pressure on any woman who is unexpectedly pregnant to abort is immense.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow tragic that when Spears turned to the baby\u2019s father for support,\u201d Szoch lamented, \u201cshe was met with more pressure to pay for her unborn child to be killed. The pain and suffering she endured is not unique to her but is likely what most mothers who experience abortion feel.\u201d<\/p>\n As she points out, it\u2019s not just Britney Spears enduring this kind of trauma.<\/p>\n With the use of the abortion pill\u00a0increasing<\/a>, the number of women enduring pain like Spears is growing rapidly.\u00a0Live Action<\/a>, a pro-life organization,\u00a0shared<\/a>\u00a0the experiences of multiple women who regretted their chemical abortions.<\/p>\n One woman named Monica swallowed her second set of abortion drugs and, like Spears, quickly felt horrible cramping. \u201cIntense pain. Then it would go away. Then more pain,\u201d she said. As she was curled up on her bed, \u201cEach wave of cramping [was] a little worse than the one before.\u201d She got up and begged her boyfriend to turn on the bath for her. Climbing into the tub, she then felt a pressure release. \u201cThe fetus was \u2014 it was floating in the water,\u201d she said, her voice quivering.<\/p>\n Another woman named Leslie said her experience was \u201cincredibly terrifying, isolating, and painful\u201d and described the pain as \u201cviolent\u201d and \u201cunnatural.\u201d<\/p>\n Still another woman named Salome shared, \u201cI saw the most heartbreaking thing that I\u2019ve ever seen in my entire life. I saw my child \u2026 It was the most beautiful thing that I\u2019ve ever created. And I destroyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n Considering these women, Szoch emphasized that, \u201cAbortions in America are not forced, but they are culturally coerced.\u201d The media and pro-abortion groups like to pretend it\u2019s no big deal to swallow a pill that destroys an innocent baby. Rather, they paint a picture that DIY abortion is convenient for getting rid of a \u201cclump of cells,\u201d and more comfortable since the woman is in her home. They ignore, though, the true suffering that takes place \u2014 once exclusively done by the hands of abortionists, and now increasingly by the hands of women in their own homes.<\/p>\n The Left denies the fact that they are destroying \u2014 not only children \u2014 but women, men, and families at large. They are demolishing unborn life, but they are also leaving lasting scars on the lives of those who fell victim to the lie that \u201cabortion is health care.\u201d Or the lie that it doesn\u2019t affect anyone else. As Live Action\u2019s Nancy Flanders put it, \u201cWhen innocent lives are taken, all of society is affected \u2026 With abortion, at least one person is intentionally killed, and another is often left traumatized by the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n But even if it were true that abortion only affected the woman having one, it remains that those effects are life-altering and, ultimately, irreversible. In some instances, they\u2019re even life-threatening \u2014 especially in the case of chemical abortion.<\/p>\n A\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0conducted by\u00a0Operation Rescue<\/a>, a pro-life group, stated how \u201c367 surgical abortion facilities have permanently closed\u201d since 2013. While this seems like good news at first glance, further examination shows these closures are due to the\u00a0rise\u00a0of medication abortions \u2014 with a 47% increase this decade alone.<\/p>\n Even more alarming,\u00a0studies<\/a>\u00a0have found chemical abortion to be four times more dangerous than surgical abortion. Chemical abortion includes risks like hemorrhaging, sepsis, and infection \u2014 risks that have been linked to\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0deaths. These chemical abortions are dangerous even\u00a0with\u00a0medical supervision, and yet, the abortion industry is actively\u00a0pushing<\/a>\u00a0women to take the pills at home alone, where there is no medical supervision to monitor the process, the pain, or anything for that matter.<\/p>\n No wonder mental health problems are skyrocketing, and cultural division is rampant. Looking at the world right now, we have a\u00a0war<\/a>\u00a0in the Middle East killing thousands of innocent people, children being\u00a0stripped<\/a>\u00a0of their childhood in the name of LGBT \u201cinclusivity<\/a>,\u201d and men being told their God-given role to be protectors and providers is\u00a0toxic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ignoring God\u2019s biblical mandates inevitably leads to the breakdown of society\u00a0and\u00a0the individual, because\u00a0straying<\/a>\u00a0away from biblical mandates is straying away from how things were supposed to be.<\/p>\n And, on top of everything else, we women are being attacked in\u00a0more<\/a>\u00a0ways than\u00a0one<\/a>. I believe glorifying God will always be the highest calling of anyone, and motherhood is certainly a gift and a blessing that is meant to glorify God. It is an immense honor for a woman to bear children, and it is something God created the woman uniquely to do. Abortion, the taking of the life God knit together in the womb, is \u201cexcruciating,\u201d \u201cagonizing,\u201d and \u201ctraumatizing.\u201d And the spike in chemical abortions is only spreading more pain.<\/p>\n Sharing her sadness over the current state of society, Szoch said, \u201cI hope [Spears] is able to experience the love and mercy of God, and I hope men will learn how important of a role they play in their child\u2019s mother\u2019s decision to choose abortion or life for their child.\u201d She added, \u201cWe need fathers to step up and be protectors of their children and supporters of their child\u2019s mother \u2014 not to cower away in fear of the unknown. Abortion stops the heart of a child and breaks the heart \u2014 and sometimes the body \u2014 of that child\u2019s mother, regardless of socioeconomic or social status.\u201d<\/p>\n Abortion is nothing but destructive. Giving women easier access to chemical abortion is not simply making the problem worse, but it takes an already atrocious problem and spreads it like wildfire. Without pro-life heroes putting out the fires, the blaze of abortion will seek to creep over every state line. Its smoke pollutes the air with lies and deceit, and with the fan of pro-abortion activists, even closed doors won\u2019t guarantee the fire stays out.<\/p>\n But as the pro-life movement has proved in the last 50 years since Roe v. Wade<\/em>, heroes don\u2019t give up easily.<\/p>\n