A former RMU student relives her abortion
My post last week on Robert Morris University’s Day of Service, which included an “opportunity” to help the local Planned Parenthood pack safer sex kits, yielded a comment from former RMU student Cynthia Collins, pictured right.
Cynthia is now the Louisiana director of Operation Outcry, an organization of post-abortive mothers “‘crying out’ the truth that abortion hurts women, men, families, and the culture.” She is also host of “Faces of Abortion” on the Sky Angel network.
Cynthia was one of the first to get an abortion after it was legalized following the Roe v. Wade decision. That set her on a downward spiral. Abortion is still impacting Cynthia’s life but now for good. You can read her complete testimony here. As for RMU’s part, here was Cynthia’s comment….
Just ran across this post…and I know this is not a coincidence.
This past weekend I spoke to university students [Students for Life group at LSU] about the need for life affirming pregnancy care for college students… and the truth about how abortion hurts women… for a lifetime.
On my way to the speaking engagement, I was just remembering a college paper I had written, while a student at Robert Morris College (now RMU) in Pittsburgh.
It was paper about a young girl who was traumatized physically and emotionally after an abortion. She told about the nightmares she was having about her baby being torn apart. I was wondering about the astute professor that called me into her office and told me she wanted to refer me for “help”… she realized the young girl that I wrote about was me.
It was 34 years ago, I was a 19 year old freshmen at Robert Morris College…. I was referred to a Planned Parenthood office for a pregnancy test by a friend. I went for help….
Planned Parenthood of Pittsburgh advised abortion, told me that my baby was just a “blob.” I had gone to PP for help in a very vulnerable time. It was January of ’73 and PP made the appointment for the abortion… after the pregnancy test. I was not “educated” or informed about all the options… the abortion procedure… or about my baby’s development.
There were about 40 other young women in the PP abortion facility that day. Our money, our babies, and our lives were taken. None of us were told the truth. PP continued to refer me… and other students for abortion. Our lives were never the same.
In an email yesterday granting me permission to post her name, Cynthia expressed this desire for RMU:
It would be my hope that truth and life would be brought to the students, that they would stand and speak up for the life of their generation… not be taught the lies, deception, and greed of Planned Parenthood through PPFA’s school of hard knocks.
RMU would do better to begin a Pregnancy Resource Center, on campus… allow students to intern, to learn life giving skills, to help their community and campus, and help with ways to keep their future generation of students alive, learning, and growing at RMU.
Perhaps a student or leader at RMU will take the opportunity presented by last week’s publicity of RMU’s participation in PP’s culture of death to turn that into a positive, as Cynthia suggested.
Note from Cynthia to post-abortive mothers:
There is a Declaration form on the OO web site that can be downloaded, signed (even with initials), completed with testimony, forwarded to the Justice Foundation, and will be used to bring forward the truth that “abortion hurts women.”
There’s also info and links for abortion recovery. The Supreme Court showed they were listening when they referred to the 180 affidavits of women hurt by abortion in Gonzales v Carhart [this past April’s partial birth abortion ban decision].
[HT: moderator Bethany]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Thank you for speaking out, Cynthia.
gentle ((hugs)) for Cynthia
I thank God for women like Cynthia who are speaking the truth….as a post abortive woman who has also suffered and found healing we want others to know they are not crazy for their feelings and wholeness is possible again.
the truth will prevail
Why is it that 50,000,000 abortions have been perfomed in the country since Roe v. Wade became law of the land, yet only a tiny smattering of women regret that choice?
The vast, VAST majority of women who have chosen abortion are sure thay made the sound decision, and are grateful that the option was available when they needed it.
Go to the “Silent No More” site and read some of the testimonies from the women who claim to have been “harmed” by their decision to abort. You’ll find a significant number from women who are clearly unstable and SHOULD be kept away from children, as well as number of outright liars:
Cries of My Heart
By Roxanne Richard
I was in my early 20’s when I went to the ER as I couldn’t keep anything down. I told them I may be pregnant, and I was on the Pill. Before I knew it, I was admitted for observation, given x-rays, and had my stomach pumped for hours. Come morning, I was met with an angry doctor, who sat down, flipped open my chart, and pointed to the red inked circled around “positive” for pregnancy. My doctor strongly suggested that I have an abortion because of what they had done to me the night before. I CHOSE ABORTION.
I drove for three hours, registered at the clinic in Iowa City, and sat by a wild-eyed redhead who tried to reassure me by saying the procedure was simple and quick. It was her sixth abortion. Lying on the bed, the nurse spread my legs, and before I knew it there was an awful sucking noise. I realized the sound was coming out of me, so I started fighting for them to stop. They calmed me down saying “it was nothing,
Laura,
I knew it!!! I knew It!!!!!!!
I knew you would be the first to call these women liars.
You are so predictable with your responses. I always know I am reading your ridiculous posts by the time I get into the first paragraph. Your contstant smirky snide dribble is so predictable.
What is your point with the above post?????????
Why do you call these women liars???????
You say the VAST majority of women are sure they made a sound decision. You are so willing to throw women under the bus just to keep the right to abort “legal”
I think the “VAST” majority of women who say they made a sound decision to have an abortion are liars. I think they are unstable because they don’t value life and can’t admit they killed their baby. They are the ones who need help. They are the ones who should be kept away from children. They are too ashamed to admit that what they did was wrong. They don’t want to admit their guilt.
You should be thanking Cynthia for speaking out where there is injustice being done to women.
She was lied to by PP, not given any other support or options. Why are you not mad at PP??? You are so all about the “choice”
Instead you are the first to criticize her. You honestly disgust me.
Laura is a paid troll.
She spends all day posting and dancing on the graves of others. Why even engage her. She probably is paid per post for her trouble.
Laura is a paid troll.
She spends all day posting and dancing on the graves of others. Why even engage her. She probably is paid per post for her trouble.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 1, 2007 3:09 PM
If someone is paying, I want a check too! Laura, please tell me who to bill.
Theresa, you came back!!!!
Oh looky, it’s a troll convention!!!
She spends all day posting and dancing on the graves of others. Why even engage her. She probably is paid per post for her trouble.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 1, 2007 3:09 PM
I try to ignore her. I really do.
Hi Heather!!
Theresa, I too welcome you back!!
No, I’m not Theresa — just a regular reader who is tired of hearing from the same old harpies over and over again. They drive the conversation away from the topic at hand and do it intentionally, I think.
Seems best to ignored the paid trolls.
Anonymous, I try to also. She just keeps on popping up. Hi Sandy!!!!
Hal, how do you know Laura is paid to troll? Or are you just assuming it?
Ya know, Laura, you really slander women when you go around saying that they are grateful that their babies have been put to death. What kind of monsters would women, as a group be, if what you claim is true? We’d be the worst sort of ghouls, spiritually dining on the flesh of our own children.
I am so sick of women like you tarring innocent, decent women with the “grateful aborter” brush. It’s adding insult to injury.
Cynthia, and other OO and SNM women, I suggest that you look up your local medical school at the “Medical Students for Choice (sic)” web site. You can find out if your local medical school forces or encourages aspiring ob/gyns and family practitioners to become stones in the abortion mill, grinding women and children for political fodder.
Hal, how do you know Laura is paid to troll? Or are you just assuming it?
I think he was just being facetious. :)
Ya know, Laura, you really slander women when you go around saying that they are grateful that their babies have been put to death. What kind of monsters would women, as a group be, if what you claim is true? We’d be the worst sort of ghouls, spiritually dining on the flesh of our own children.
I am so sick of women like you tarring innocent, decent women with the “grateful aborter” brush. It’s adding insult to injury.
Amen, Christina. Very well said.
God Bless OO SNM women for being a voice for the voiceless for such a time as this!
For 20 years I have been sharing my pain of abortion in schools, conferences, prisons etc…the scars remain over the sad reality that I ignorantly had my own children killed at the hands of professionals!! They lied when they told me it was “just a clump of tissue” I was 9-12 weeks pregnant, my babies had beating hearts, arms, legs, fingers and toes, and suffered till their death!
They lied when they said it was a “safe” procedure…I got an infection, damaged cervix and badly scarred uterus (womb) causing sterility problems..and all without the use of a single coathanger, but done by doctors! For years I suffered the deep sorrow, remorse and grief/loss of those children that can never be replaced!
Over the years I have spoken to thousands of women that share similar testimonies on the pain of abortion. We are outraged that women are not informed about all the risk factors including Breast Cancer, sterility, depression, premature births…the evidence is clear. We are disgusted that there is no right to life for the preborn child. Abortion is a wrong, and not a right. It is not a black and white issue…it is blood red.
I thank God for HIS amazing Grace and that Jesus was beaten and crucified, and shed HIS innocent blood so my sins of abortion could be forgiven.
May the Holy Spirit raise up multitudes of women to be a voice for our children, so they did not die in vain! May we get the courage to sue abortion doctors and cancer societies for giving us false information and for the damages done to us physically and emotionally.
Rev. 12:11 “We defeat Satan by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony…” Amen!!
Denise
http://www.canadasilentnomore.com
Thank you, Denise….Christina, Thanks for calling a spade a spade. Could you imagine any of Laura’s “friends” if they were to seek comfort from her after abortion? She’d laugh in their faces. She probably knows tons of women who regret abortion, but they know better than to confide in her. This woman is not funny. She is sick.
Ya know, Laura, you really slander women when you go around saying that they are grateful that their babies have been put to death.
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Nah. I’m sure that Mary Beth Tinning, Andrea Yates and Susan Smith are less than grateful that they put their babies to death. That tends to turn out nasty.
I know many, MANY women who were grateful to have access to abortion.