mike erickson for congress.jpgJivinJ and I wrote in May about accusations that supposedly pro-life OR congressional candidate Mike Erickson had taken a girlfriend for an abortion in 2001.
Yesterday the Oregonian published the heartbreaking story from the aborting girlfriend, who only provided her first name, Tawnya. Aside from outting Erickson, this tragedy reiterates that abortion is not a great American right. It is an act of desperation. It is used by coercive men to exploit women. Here is an excerpt…

Her story is backed up by medical and other records, and the accounts of two friends, one of whom was with her at the abortion. Their story conflicts directly with Erickson’s version….
Tawnya… recalled sitting with Erickson in his new Mercedes that January, parked across from the abortion clinic.
“I was bawling so hard I couldn’t speak. He looked so sad. He looked like he cared,” she said….

“I asked him, ‘Are you sure you don’t want a baby?’ ” she said. “He shook his head. I opened the door, got out bawling and crossed the street and walked up to the clinic.”…
Tawnya reluctantly agreed to talk after repeated requests from the Oregonian. She said she was motivated in part by seeing Erickson tell his version to television reporters before the primary election.
“I’m just sick to my stomach watching him be interviewed on the news completely lying about everything,” she said.
She requested her medical records from the Bours Health Center in Northeast Portland. The record shows an abortion was performed Jan. 30, 2001. She paid $300….
Tawnya was 26 years old when she met Erickson, then 37.
She was a single mom of a 3-year-old girl, earning $13.77 an hour at a Milwaukie warehouse and living in a small apartment….
Erickson prospered as president of AFMS….
She couldn’t recall exactly when she learned she was pregnant, or when she told Erickson….
“I just remember him being fairly solemn about it. He didn’t tell me I had to get an abortion. He didn’t force me,” Tawnya said.
But he also wasn’t going to marry her, she said, and she didn’t want to raise another child on her own.
She scheduled the appointment and said she asked Erickson to take her there. He stopped at an ATM to withdraw $300 to give her. During the drive, he told her that because of work he couldn’t stay, she said….
[Friend Kristi] Oetken held her hand during the procedure and drove her home afterward.
“She cried the entire time,” said Oetken….

[HT: LifeNews.com]

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