Catholic woman who had an abortion urges others to reconsider 

I was 16 and got pregnant, and was studying in a Catholic university, in a highly conservative Christian country. The university will expel a student once they find out she is pregnant, that's why they do compulsory urine pregnancy test every six months. I submitted someone else's urine sample just so I could finish the semester, and quietly left university before they find out, and moved to an Episcopal university where they would judge me... less, and allow me to finish my studies. I kept attending class until I was 6 months pregnant, hiding the bulge under oversized hoodies. I gave birth to her, and went back to uni after two weeks, without telling anyone except my closest friends. Raising her while studying was tough, I remember falling asleep while breastfeeding her with my university study materials in one hand, and not being able to attend a friend's 18th birthday because I was at home taking care of her. I graduated top of my class, and now have a stable job. I am glad I kept her, and I have no regrets. She is a gift to me by God, and she gives me joy!

I’m impressed that a secular news organization brought this…. Thank you Miami Herald. Usually it’s only women advocating abortion.

I beg girls not to kill their spirit this way.

So glad you recieved healing. God and the Church are so beautiful and mercyfull

What if your in a domestic violent relationship. I’m scared

Thank you, thank you, for your beautiful work.

So parent should bring a genetically affected child to the world to live 2 years of visiting specialists?

I thought the comments might be religious folk, and not unhinged psychopaths. Turns out they’re both.

Jesus is Lord, God bless you

YOU NAME THE FETUS?? that feels like adding on to the trauma, my goodness...

God bless this woman. I wish I had someone like her 4 years ago offering me help. I wouldn't have aborted my baby if she or someone like her had taken the time to talk to me outside the Planned Parenthood office. 😞

3:05 U believe it yet you killed the baby. So you knew you murdered the baby

the word chatholic should be demolished .

...so she reaped the benefits of NOT having the early pregnancy that she didn't want, but doesn't want other women to because SHE feels guilt afterward?

She needs to go to God through Jesus and ask for forgiveness, not the priest. He cannot forgive her from her sins.

Murder is murder. Doesnt matter when. Your taking the life of a being. Theres no excuse for that

This woman made all the wrong conclusions. Sure, she is an example of how one's decision to abort a child should be well-thought and all the options should be considered. Also, a woman undergoing an abortion must know that it's a choice she would have to live with for the rest of her life. But what this lady did was use her human right to CHOOSE, had an abortion that's inaccessible to so many, made her own conclusions, and now she wants to apply her situation to other women. Why? Her experience is NOT other women's experiences. If she wants to help, she should volunteer at a women's health clinic and not ambush women seeking abortion outside such a clinic. Also, the irony is, lots of Planned Parenthood and other clinics DO ultrasound and pregnancy care; abortions is just one of the many services they offer.

If Chanel Jeanty can get some chick preggers I don't get why Linda Fernandez regrets her abortion.

Hypocrite