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 Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:09 pm
I "lost" a "half-sibling." My mother had an abortion ten years before I was born. It would've been born in February, like me.
I used to be pro-life because of it. I was young, stupider, and pissed about being an only child (I still am). I truly felt as though I had lost a brother or sister. Now, I see it very differently. My mom was barely 15. Her family was already poor (grandma and grandpa had four kids, and my aunt bore a child the month before that our grandparents would essentially raise). She may not have met my dad and had me. The bad thing about it is that my grandmother forced her to do it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:29 pm
I don't know for certain whether I've 'lost' anyone to abortion. However, I was a 'test tube baby', so if the Lifers' definition of life is correct, I could have lost many, many siblings rolleyes I've lost two siblings through other means, but I didn't know them. Sometimes I wonder what things would be like if they were around, to be honest.
I may have lost a son/daughter, but that was the morning after pill so it's cutting it a bit fine twisted Again, to be honest, I wonder a bit about that time. I was terrified just by the slight chance of being pregnant. I hope I'm never in a position to be as terrified as that, or more terrified, again.
The rest of my family, I have no idea whatsoever.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:54 pm
Deformography I "lost" a "half-sibling." My mother had an abortion ten years before I was born. It would've been born in February, like me. I used to be pro-life because of it. I was young, stupider, and pissed about being an only child (I still am). I truly felt as though I had lost a brother or sister. Now, I see it very differently. My mom was barely 15. Her family was already poor (grandma and grandpa had four kids, and my aunt bore a child the month before that our grandparents would essentially raise). She may not have met my dad and had me. The bad thing about it is that my grandmother forced her to do it. Your older sibling would have been ten years older than you! That's not a sibling, that's a babysitter. My older siblings are about ten years older than me, and it SUCKED. My brother moved out when I was in kindergarten or early elementary school, and my sister lived with us much longer but I still never really got to hang out with her or play like I do with my little sister, who is two years younger. Both of my older siblings were basically babysitters. Not like friends or a near-age sibling at all.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:31 pm
PhaedraMcSpiffy Deformography I "lost" a "half-sibling." My mother had an abortion ten years before I was born. It would've been born in February, like me. I used to be pro-life because of it. I was young, stupider, and pissed about being an only child (I still am). I truly felt as though I had lost a brother or sister. Now, I see it very differently. My mom was barely 15. Her family was already poor (grandma and grandpa had four kids, and my aunt bore a child the month before that our grandparents would essentially raise). She may not have met my dad and had me. The bad thing about it is that my grandmother forced her to do it. Your older sibling would have been ten years older than you! That's not a sibling, that's a babysitter. My older siblings are about ten years older than me, and it SUCKED. My brother moved out when I was in kindergarten or early elementary school, and my sister lived with us much longer but I still never really got to hang out with her or play like I do with my little sister, who is two years younger. Both of my older siblings were basically babysitters. Not like friends or a near-age sibling at all. Yeah, I suppose. My cousin would've been about 6 months older than it, and she's 9 1/2 years older than me. I never really got to hang out with her because she was busy working, boyfriending, et cetera. I just graduated high school, and she's married with an 8-month-old daughter. Age gaps are very significant when you're young. The other thing is, I may not be here if my mother had not aborted. Maybe my dad wouldn't have gone for a woman with a kid. Maybe she would've settled for the first loser to cross her path, like my aunt did (I think she panicked because two of her sisters married in, like, the same year and she was still unmarried). Who knows? Things turned out this way, maybe for a reason, and I wouldn't do anything to change it if I could.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:12 am
My cousin's first fetus had no brain or skull. I think he was miscarried...but I don't know I've only known her for a short while.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:56 pm
My mom had an abortion when she was 17. She then gave birth to me the day she turned 29, and my younger brother soon after she was 33. She's always said we are her treasures. heart
If she had given birth the first time, I'd either have an older half-brother, or Maxx and I would not exist.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:12 pm
Unless I have a relative who had an abortion and I don't know about it, I haven't "lost" anyone to abortion. However, I have "lost" a "sibling" to a miscarriage about a year before I was born. Had that sibling been born, chances are, I would have never been born because my parents only wanted one kid.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:34 pm
I've "lost" a "sibling" to abortion.
My mom was 17, missed a pill, got pregnant. She came from a very strict Catholic household, so she couldn't tell her mother or father (my grandparents). And they were pretty broke, and she wasn't ready for a child. What 17 year old typically is? She had an abortion, and gave birth 4 other times:
To my older sister (gave up for adoption), who's 20.
Me, age 17.
My twin sisters (deceased after birth), would be 15.
My youngest sister, who is 14 now.
She's said that she's glad she did it way back then though, because now she is able to provide for my sister and I, and loves us because we were WANTED.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:05 pm
I lost a couple of siblings. I don't know much about the first abortion my mother had, only that she regretted it and insists on saying I should never get an abortion myself, despite the fact she insists she's prochoice. She had another one a short time before me, after the first, because the fetus had not only died, but had fossilized as well.
I've also lost several siblings to miscarriage.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:40 pm
I lost my son or daughter. And I don't just mean I had an abortion, I mean I really did lose the embryo. After I...erm...expelled the embryo (I had a nonsurgical abortion) I put it in a bag and threw it in the freezer. All I can guess is that it got mixed up with the other stuff in there and was thrown out. Either way, I lost it D,=
To think I got a chance to have a perserved embryo and I lost the damned thing!
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:07 am
I don't believe I've "lost" anyone. Even if I did, I wouldn't feel right calling it a loss seeing as I never had it in the first place.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:23 pm
Individual 171192 I lost my son or daughter. And I don't just mean I had an abortion, I mean I really did lose the embryo. After I...erm...expelled the embryo (I had a nonsurgical abortion) I put it in a bag and threw it in the freezer. All I can guess is that it got mixed up with the other stuff in there and was thrown out. Either way, I lost it D,= To think I got a chance to have a perserved embryo and I lost the damned thing! LOL! Wow. I would do the same thing if I could.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:55 am
Individual 171192 I lost my son or daughter. And I don't just mean I had an abortion, I mean I really did lose the embryo. After I...erm...expelled the embryo (I had a nonsurgical abortion) I put it in a bag and threw it in the freezer. All I can guess is that it got mixed up with the other stuff in there and was thrown out. Either way, I lost it D,= To think I got a chance to have a perserved embryo and I lost the damned thing! That is hilarious!
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:31 pm
Individual 171192 I lost my son or daughter. And I don't just mean I had an abortion, I mean I really did lose the embryo. After I...erm...expelled the embryo (I had a nonsurgical abortion) I put it in a bag and threw it in the freezer. All I can guess is that it got mixed up with the other stuff in there and was thrown out. Either way, I lost it D,= To think I got a chance to have a perserved embryo and I lost the damned thing! O.<
I-I'm sorry for your loss ...
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:23 am
I "lost" a niece/nephew to abortion, would have been my sister's fourth kid and she was finding it hard to cope with three as it was, not to mention she and her husband were starting to grow apart at the time any way.
Her husband was convinced she was having an affair (which she was, but a non-sexual one) and was also convinced that the fetus wasn't his anyway...so she had an abortion, got her tubes tied, and got a divorce.
'Course, I am wondering what her life would have been like if she'd refused to succumb to pressure to keep the fetus and marry, and instead aborted it and stayed living near to us instead of moving up to Scotland.
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