Mixed among the thousands of Americans marching in Washington, D.C., Friday were a handful of women whose paths to the nation’s capital city were marked by the very action being protested: abortion.
Mingling among the masses were Mary and Shawna, two women who spoke with CBN News during Friday’s March for Life about the regretful choices they’d made in their respective pasts, and why it was important to each of them to march from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Supreme Court Building.
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“I had an abortion when I was 18 and, at this point, I really am marching on behalf of my child, who was not born and I want women to know — and I want others to know — that there were a lot of ramifications to me after I had the abortion,” said Mary. “I thought I was taking care of a short-term problem, but really, it was not as positive as I was led to believe; it was really a very negative experience.”
Like many women, Mary said she was coerced into believing an abortion would be the right decision that would, in some way, correct the trajectory
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