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Hi! My name is Samantha. I’m 23 years old and I have a story to tell…
When I was 17 years old I
found out I was pregnant.
I was a senior in high school.
The baby’s father and I
had just broken up a few weeks
before. Needless to say, I was scared to
death. 1,000 questions were
running through my
mind…
What will my parents say?
What will the people at
school think?
How can I raise a baby
when I’m not even an
adult myself?
At first, the easiest thing
seemed to be to get an
abortion. Nobody
would find out.
Everything would go back to
normal and I could enjoy
being a senior. The “problem” would just go away.
I went to the local Crisis Pregnancy
Center in hopes of getting some
direction on what to do
next… While I was there I
watched a video about
unplanned pregnancy.
I learned what my baby looked like…
How big my baby was…
That my baby’s tiny heart was already
beating…
But the most
important thing I learned that day
was that I could
have my baby if I
wanted to. There were
people who were willing to help me.
A few weeks later, I
went for my first
ultrasound. Seeing my baby for the first time was all it took for me to
know I had made the
right choice.
On August 3rd, 2005, three months after I
graduated high school, I gave birth to a beautiful 9 pound, 4 ounce little
boy named Ethan Kade.
But that’s not the end
of my story…
I had been a single
mother for 3 years when I started
college in January
of 2008. I was so excited to be
back in school.
One week after classes started, I found out I was pregnant again.
What started out as one night out
with an old friend turned
into way more than I
ever expected… This time I
was alone, in school, AND
I had another kid
to think about.
I talked to my friends about
abortion. I was
ashamed, but I felt like it
was my only option…
I told my Mom,
hoping she could give me some
advice. We decided that I should go
to the doctor to
make sure everything was okay,
and then do some
research on adoption.
I cried for weeks while
I scrolled through websites looking at couples
wanting to adopt.
Adoption is a beautiful thing, but
deep down I knew it just wasn’t for
me.
On June 23, 2008, I gave birth to an 11
pound, 4 ounce perfect little boy
named Evan Carter.
Evan was born during my
summer break from college. I
returned to school when he was 2 months
old, right where I had left off.
I was a single Mom for 4 years until I got married to an amazing man in June of
2009. He is a wonderful step-father to Ethan and
father to Evan (the adoption was final this past
March).
The point of my story is that even though babies can come about at the most
inopportune times, it doesn’t mean that they will
ruin your life. Things will work out if you give them a
chance to.
You may feel alone. Or too young. Or too busy. Maybe you’re just
scared. Maybe you feel like I did: You just want to have the abortion because it’ll
make the “problem” go away and you won’t have to think about it
anymore.
But if you go through with
it, the “problem” won’t go
away. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. You’ll
think about the baby you could have had. What that baby
would look like now, what it
would be doing, how old it would be…
I considered abortion two times. If I had gone through with it, I would be missing out on a beautiful
gift.
Being a Mom isn’t easy, but little kisses on
the face, crayon
doodles made just for you, and being
told, “I love you Mommy,”
every day makes it all
worth it.
Please don’t think that abortion is your only choice. There
are so many people who want to help you
and your baby.
American Pregnancy Helpline – 1-866-942-6466 www. thehelpline.orgAdoptionhelp.org
Abort73.com 4exhale.org – After Abortion Help