(Not so) pro-life vid of day: Clinic owner’s illegal abortion story
by Kelli
Pro-choice feminist rhetoric continually pushes the idea that an abortion is no more serious or life-altering than having a cavity removed. Yet when even pro-choice women tell their abortion stories, it seems a common thread among them is that they can’t forget.
The first woman featured in the featured video (which she posted on YouTube) is Jennifer Leigh. While sharing very little information other than that she had an abortion, she says she “could tell you every single detail of that day.”
Renee Chelian (pictured), founder of the Northland Family Planning abortion conglomerate in Michigan (which offers coupons, special services, and abortions up to 24 weeks), follows with her story. Chelian had an illegal second-trimester abortion in 1966 at age 15.
Far from being an inconsequential experience, Chelian’s abortion was so life-altering that it eventually led her to start her own abortion clinic.
Chelian shares that after her abortion, her mother asked her if she wanted to see her aborted child. She did not. Near tears, she says, “I never asked her what it was. I didn’t care. I had a chance to finish high school and to go on with my life.”
Chelian’s story begins at 3:10:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/SpCF-68YBQI[/youtube]
Chelian is also known for unsuccessfully suing the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform in 2012 after the group published a video juxtaposing Northland’s “Angel of Light” clinic video (which described abortion as “courageous,” “thoughtful,” “normal,” and “sacred”) with actual abortion footage. Chelian reported that she was “sick to [her] stomach” and “crying” because “it was so painful to see such a sincere and good piece of work [the dishonest clinic video] treated so shabbily. It’s really hard to have to confront these things, emotionally big downers.”
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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.
Must be a real nightmare for a post-abortive woman to have the slick commercial for her abortion facility exposed for what it truly is. One can easily imagine this commercial was the woman’s attempt to stuff down the extreme unpleasantness her abortion was causing her mind to have, probably in nightmares.
I’m reminded of an incident in the life of Dr. Viktor Frankl, who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz. One of Dr. Frankl’s patients in the crude infirmary he headed was having a nightmare. Dr. Frankl thought to wake him up, but then he realized whatever kind of nightmare the man was having couldn’t compare to the reality he would be waking him up to.
Chelian reported that she was “sick to [her] stomach” and “crying” because “it was so painful to see such a sincere and good piece of work [the dishonest clinic video] treated so shabbily.
Or maybe…just maybe. her whole being was reacting to the reality of what had been done to her child.
She couldn’t admit it..not even to herself, so she came up with that ^ .
I’m sorry, but while my heart really does break for the women who have had abortions, I cannot stand that Chelian’s clinic video totally lied to women, calling abortion normal, thoughtful, courageous, and sacred. SACRED??
That is just not okay.
And I have to agree with DocK and Pamela here. I understand it would be upsetting to have a group you oppose take your fluffy pretty unicorn abortions video and actually SHOW that “sacred” and “thoughtful” procedure you’re trying to whitewash, but to be sick to your stomach and crying? That is an appropriate response to the hellishness of abortion. Absolutely appropriate. In fact, it’s the reaction *I* had when I saw The Hard Truth abortion footage. It’s why I’m in the pro-life movement… because I came face to face with actual FACES. Faces of the children killed in abortions.
Chelian didn’t have the courage to look at her own child when she killed him/her, and now she wants to make sure that no woman has to face what she’s done. This doesn’t help women, and it’s not reality. Killing your child is many things, but it is not courageous, thoughtful, normal, OR sacred. And they know this. And this is why they can’t forget that day. That’s why they remember it vividly. That’s why they remember things and feel a certain way at a certain time of year. Because it wasn’t like pulling a tooth or extracting a cavity. It was the traumatic killing of a child.
You can paint it like an “angel of light” all you want, but your psyche can only be lied to for so long.
“Chelian shares that after her abortion, her mother asked her if she wanted to see her aborted child. She did not. Near tears, she says, “I never asked her what it was. I didn’t care. I had a chance to finish high school and to go on with my life.”
While things were different in 1966, pregnancy does not prevent a woman from going on with her life. It may take a different course than one originally envisioned, but it hardly ends lives. Either way, your life will never be the same as if you had never been pregnant. Abortion is not the great do-over. My birthmother was pregnant while single and in school in 1962. Her life most assuredly went on and could be considered successful.
DocKimble…omg what a chilling story.
Being repetative is part of the fight. Pray for her. Shes blinded. Shes been wounded and she must heal. Only God knows when that will happen. Ever see a truly happy pro abort? I havent. Look at her face. It screams I need help! Otherwise she will keep spreading the message that killing is the answer. She reminds me a bit of Roe.
I would encourage anyone to read Dr. Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning,” his account of the horrors of the Holocaust. Frankl was a well-known psychologist and psychotherapist who got rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. His time in the concentration camp allowed him to find meaning in life, even life within the most horrifying of all possible circumstances. He developed the psychotherapeutic model which he called “Logotherapy,” a very effective means of curing people’s mental disorders caused by the modern world. Some of his lectures are on youtube.
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
? Viktor E. Frankl
Hi Doc K. i have read many books on the holocaust. I love to read. I will check it out.