New Stanek WND.com column, “The abortion nurse’s daughter”
When Abigail Seidman was 10 years old her mother had an abortion. Abigail suspects her father was not the baby’s father, and her parents eventually divorced.
Abigail describes her childhood until that time as normal. But the abortion “radicalized” her mother, Abigail told me, who came to decide abortion had not only been the right decision for her but was also good in a moral sense….
Abigail’s mother was and is a nurse. She became more involved in feminism and the abortion culture. She decided to switch careers and began working at her local abortion mill in Toledo, Ohio, as well as her local Planned Parenthood, which did not commit abortions.
On Abigail’s 11th birthday, her mother put her on the birth-control pill, admonishing her not to have sex but to nevertheless take precautions, since she could be raped….
As Abigail’s mother became more deeply involved with feminism, she told Abigail all people were naturally bisexual and androgynous and that gender and sexuality were merely social constructs. She cut Abigail’s waist-length hair short, which she was not allowed to grow out again until she was an adult. She encouraged Abigail at age 12 to identify openly as a bisexual and forced her to wear GLBT pins on her backpack….
The clinic owner where Abigail’s mother worked was a Wiccan. Most of her new friends followed a Wicca-oriented New Age path and worshipped fertility, warrior and death goddesses. Abigail’s mother dabbled in all the aforementioned but settled on Buddhism. She banned Bibles and discussion of Christianity from the house….
When Abigail turned 13 her mother began pulling her from school on Fridays to work as a “deathscort” at her abortion mill….
Continue reading my column today, “The abortion nurse’s daughter,” at WorldNetDaily.com.
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.
Fascinating column. I don’t think I’ve considered the idea that, just like abortion, some of the deathscorts might be compelled to be there by peers and parents. If only we can approach them privately at a coffee shop or bookstore, away from the pressure of their peers, and gently tell them, “You don’t have to be there.” We just might be surprised that deep down, they don’t want to be there either.
And somehow they accuse us of being the child abusers….
It is the evil of abortion that we are against, not the people. We ask and pray for their .conversion.
POWERFUL commentary, Jill. Wow. Thank you for helping to bring this young woman’s life and testimony to light. Will do what I can to help spread this message.
This is a phenomenal article. God is so great! Thank you so much Jill for standing up for righteousness and justice. I pray God would multiply 10 times over every single effort you put forth! And may He truly be known, lifted up and glorified in everything you put your hands to!
Jill, Thank you so much for your story about Abigail. Her story and your writing have encouraged me in the Lord today. God Bless You both very much.
Dear Jill and Abigail,
This story touched my heart. Thank you for sharing.
I am a grandmother of 5 children. Two of them could have been abortion threatened, but their parents made the best decision. I now have the most delightful 9 and 10 year old grandboys who love Jesus. Their lives have not been and will not be easy, but I know that they are glad to be here. I always told the my children and all their friends who would listen that words need to be matched by action when difficult times come. When the rubber met the road, my son-in-law and his first wife made the RIGHT decision. I praise God for that.
Thank you for your work in the pro-life movement.
Thank you, Jill. I’d like to encourage people to reprint the story and hand it out at their local abortion mills. It could have an enormous effect!
I can’t help but wonder if her mother wasn’t violating some sort of law when she got Abigail involved with the abortion clinic escort thing in the first place. This is just sick.
How did you find her, Jill?
Remarkable story. Thanks for sharing it. I befriended an abortionist who had a similar story as Abigail’s mother (aborted in her late 20’s after an affair, then divorced). She has classic post-abortion syndrome, but is blind to understanding the cause of her symptoms. She blames protestors and how they add to the stress of clinic workers. What deception. But I’m still praying that the Lord will break through with His loving truth.
Interesting and heartbreaking story, When I used to go to the clinics I did see the deathscorts with their teen and ‘tween daughters there. But let’s not stereotype all clinic workers as extremists who worship death goddesses. That’s just like saying we’re all clinic bombing fanatics.
Nat Hentoff said that he knows of women who got pregnant just to have abortions to show that they were truly pro-choice, part of the “sisterhood.” Now, that’s one sorority I have no desire to be a part of!
Absolutely Incredible, Jill. I don’t know where you find these stories, but this one is a keeper.
Carder, Michael: Steve Lopez sent me a link to the radio interview (also linked in the column), and I was instantly drawn in. I then made contact with Abigail.
Sad to hear that she went through this much as a child but it must have been God’s will because she may not be the person she is today without having gone through all this.
What sickens me is the part of 8 people being in the room and her mother telling her she’s proud that she aborted and is now part of the ‘sisterhood’. Ick!
I remember my mom when I was 15 years old when I had my oldest with tears in her eyes telling me how proud she was of me when I gave birth to my wonderful son. (who by the way is Autistic/Adhd, found this out this summer after 7 1/2 years of fighting to find out what was happening with him mentally)
My mom was proud of me even though she wanted me to abort before ‘my time to abort was up’ at 28 weeks. I was 26 weeks prego when I found out I was pregnant.
I will always thank my little man for telling me not to abort, everytime abortion was talked about, mentioned to me or DR’s telling me I NEED to do he would always start kicking away. Almost as if he wanted to live, but funny this is, we were living together. Growing up together, making mistakes along the way and I wouldn’t change it for the world!
Phillymiss,
Who is stereotyping?
This is one young woman’s story.
What an absolutely creepy mother. I would hope even most pro-choicers would be horrified by the thought of someone’s mother forcing them to get an abortion and acting as though it was some proud coming-of-age ritual.
I went to an all-girls school, and although it was a great place in many ways, there were way too many books on our summer reading lists about rape. I swear there must have been one every summer from seventh grade through junior year. Seeing as we didn’t have boys as classmates and seeing as I’m an only child who grew up in the country, I didn’t really know many boys in middle school and all that reading about rape made me overly wary around them. It’s one thing to be aware of your surroundings and aware that not all people are good, but it’s another to be constantly worried that someone could rape you. Luckily in high school I met a lot of boys and realized that most of them were perfectly normal people.
The whole “everyone is bisexual” thing is ridiculous too, although it did have quite a few second-wave feminist adherents back in the day. Wow, this article makes me so greatful for my own mother.
“What an absolutely creepy mother. I would hope even most pro-choicers would be horrified by the thought of someone’s mother forcing them to get an abortion and acting as though it was some proud coming-of-age ritual.”
Color me horrified. Bad parenting, to put in mildly.
This story is chilling and creepy and horrifying. What an abusive mother this poor woman had. How tragically lost in darkness…
It is indeed a miracle that Abigail has given her life to Jesus and is the woman she is today. Thanks for sharing her remarkable story. May God bless her and use her to impact the culture of death and bring LIFE.
Amazing what Jesus puts people through to make a point.
When I look back on my life and all its pain and sorrow and the really awful choices made by some adults around me whom I should have been able to trust, I remember that those individuals made those decisions mainly for selfish reasons. They probably thought it wouldn’t affect me in the least, because they were only thinking of themselves. But it did.
And in the midst of (and because of) the suffering, Christ revealed Himself to me and gave me His peace and taught me how to forgive. Without those experiences, I don’t think I’d truly know what it means to forgive someone. And if I hadn’t suffered as I did, I wouldn’t have been able to speak hope into the lives of others who were suffering through similar experiences.
We’re here to support and love each other – not to be pain-free. Jesus said that in this world, we’d have trouble. It’s the nature of the world. But because of how great our God is, He uses not only triumphs but tragedies in our lives to show through us who He is.
Hal, I realize you don’t understand this perspective, and your comment was meant to be inflammatory against religious people, but just thought I’d share.
Thanks, Jill, for sharing Abigail’s story.
The Lord gave us the most terrible and beautiful of gifts, free will. This means that he allows us to do evil things against Himself and against others. However, the Lord is more powerful than any decision made by man. If he can bring good out of the worst evil ever done, death of God, then he can bring good out of anything.
Although Abigail’s mother did terrible things, the Lord is more powerful than the evil she chose. May He bring her to repentance and healing and continue to pour out healing and peace upon Abigail.
Thought I was reading Jill’s bestselling novel, soon to be released. *shivers* It’s nonfiction! Shocker! :-O
Hal, your little snarky “Christian bash” was neither necessary, nor appreciated.
Hal, Jesus doesn’t make anyone go through anything…if there is one thing I wished you would’ve learned from reading and posting here, it is God has given us a wonderful gift of Free Will. Someday I am sure you will catch on to this.
Hal, Jesus doesn’t want anyone to have to go through pain and suffering. But see what happens when we flat out refuse to live within the safety net God has designed for us? Sin causes suffering Hal but Jesus is the cure.
Thank you so much for this article….wow….it certainly gives me an insight I could never have dreamed of.
So, Jesus gets credit for all the good, but no blame for the bad. Pretty good gig.
Evil is the absence of “good”, just as darkness is the absence of light. Also note that the word “good” is derived from God. Following is a bit of biblical history for you, Hal (from the Catholic Catechism):
II. THE FALL OF THE ANGELS
391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.266 Scripture and the Church’s Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called “Satan” or the “devil”.267 The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: “The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.”268
392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.269 This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter’s words to our first parents: “You will be like God.”270 The devil “has sinned from the beginning”; he is “a liar and the father of lies”.271
393 It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels’ sin unforgivable. “There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.”272
394 Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls “a murderer from the beginning”, who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.
395 The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God’s reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries – of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but “we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him.”275
Thank you for this article Jill! It certainly has a powerful, profound message! God bless pro-life warriors like you and Abigail!
“So, Jesus gets credit for all the good, but no blame for the bad. Pretty good gig.”
Can you say, crucifixion? Not such a good gig.
Hal, Jesus is waiting for you to be open to learning just a little bit about Him.
Jesus gets credit for all the good in MY life, that’s for sure.
Jesus didn’t make my daddy leave. He did that all by himself, led away by his own lusts for women other than his amazing, strong wife, my mother. Jesus didn’t make my daddy refuse to acknowledge my existence for 23 years. See, these are choices my dad made and he is now reaping the consequences. Surrounded by his own monetary wealth, he is a shell of a man. It’s sad, really. He will have nothing to show for his life in terms of loving, faithful relationships. I want my daddy to know Jesus so badly. Not for my sake, but for his.
Jesus didn’t make my stepdad emotionally abuse me to the point that I had no self-confidence for a very long time, and to the point where large parts of my childhood are complete blanks in my memory due to the trauma and fear I felt. That man did it all by himself. His own choices. That man later had a mental breakdown. One can only allow pain to build up for so long in one’s life, and one can only inflict pain on someone else for a certain amount of time before it destroys the abuser himself. I want him to find Jesus, too.
Funny thing, though – I’ve forgiven both of those men, and they know it. And Jesus DID have a huge part in that. :)
All I can say is WOW, what a testimony!
Abigail has articulated the evil darkness that shrouds the abortion industry and sucks the providers right into the cult of the abortion culture, AKA hell on earth. How sad and tragic for the children …of these rabid pro abort parents. That opens up a whole new set of victims that we hear little of.
Thank you Abigail, for your very insightful testimony. Tonight I will pray for all the children that are suffering, because of their radically pro choice parents.
This reads like a Danielle Steele novel.
“Jesus didn’t make my daddy leave. He did that all by himself, led away by his own lusts for women other than his amazing, strong wife, my mother. Jesus didn’t make my daddy refuse to acknowledge my existence for 23 years.”
So, can we say Jesus didn’t make me a great father and loving husband? I did that all by myself too, right? Free will works both ways.
Hal, lets say your child comes up to you and asks to do the dishes out of a desire to do something nice for Daddy. You provide the soap, you provide the training, the step stool and the encouragement. It was even your initial love that builds the love in the child, without which the desire to do something for you wouldn’t be there.
The child provides the free will decision to do it. The child can reject the supplies, training and love and choose instead to trash the kitchen.
No, Hal, because God is good. God is holy. God is without sin. I know that’s a difficult concept to understand.
When you are a sinful being, Hal, “free will” means you have the choice to do good or bad. You have the choice to follow what God’s ultimate plan would be, or not to follow it.
There are consequences to every behavior. If you aren’t a good father or loving husband, then you are choosing to disobey God’s desires which He had already laid out for you. His will isn’t hidden. It’s known.
my choices have nothing to do with “God’s desires.”
Yes, Hal, we’re all aware of that.
Guys, I know you’re trying to be good Christians and all, but Hal doesn’t really want explanations. He just wants to make cynical comments to anything you say about religion and stay secure in his worldview.
Are you not secure in your worldview Marauder?
Two things to comment on:
1. So much for Abigal’s choice when her mother told her to abort or she would cut her off financially.
2. I though pro-choicers mantra was that they are not pro-abortion. I think this article cleary shows they are.