Daily Caller: A father who lost two unborn babies to abortions decades ago has expressed the pain and guilt he felt following his partners’ decisions.
“The choice to terminate your child’s life will change you forever,” Nashville resident Keith Branson told The Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday. While it may seem difficult at first to keep the child as part of your life or to give up the baby for adoption, “the consequence of your choice to have sex should not be murder that will just compound your guilt and misery for years to come,” he said.
He recounted that two different women aborted two of his children and he struggled to come to grips with ending two lives for a long time. His first partner made him promise not to tell anyone she was pregnant and had an abortion against his will.
“I was a paralyzed, young, self-focused guy with no clue what to do but to become passive with no plan of action,” Branson told TheDCNF. His partner went to a friend to get the abortion and didn’t offer for him to be involved.
Branson recounted that his second partner didn’t tell him she was pregnant until after she already had an abortion.
“My relationship ended in both cases,” Branson told TheDCNF. “Neither of the women has given me permission to share about them, nor have I been able to speak to either since about it.” more here
Uh, Mr. Branson….there is such a thing as birth control.
Mary Jane, Thank you so much for placing this post. As anti-abortion is my #1 advocacy, I have a few points:
1. If you have aborted a child or your partner had, you can be fully forgiven through Jesus Christ.
2. These men, in the article are probably followers of Jesus that have found their way later in life. This is a good point.
3. Once someone on the outside of this studies abortion both scientifically and religiously, the outcome WILL hit you like the lightening bolt on Saul.
4. To stay ignorant on the subject, is an affront to the enlightenment, your own personal judgment on life (and liberty), and to your religion (whether Christian/Jew/Muslim/Athiest). It it choosing to remain stupid and regurgitating the phrase, “a bunch of cells!”
5. If you shop through Amazon, they have a link called Amazon Smile: http://smile.amazon.com, so instead of the regular link to amazon you can login here and you can attach your purchases with a donation that is paid by Amazon to your favorite charity. I would ask you to try to find a local pregnancy help center near you. If not, I would be greatly humbled if you could attach your link to my personal charity: Solutions Health & Pregnancy Center in Shrewsbury, NJ, http://solutionshpc.com
So basically I have Amazon donating to an anti-Planned Parenhood organization that I also support.
@ Meerkat
Good on ya’, man.
Sorry I don’t do Amazon…I refuse to give Bezos a friggin’ penny.
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I Completely understand! But I have three teenagers and Amazon is their mall. Which I am still trying to figure out if the old, “hanging out at the mall” was such a bad thing?!
Meerkat – I get what you mean tho when you say “the old”, but hanging out at the mall is not a good thing today when you see what is infesting the dying malls. It is very similar to what happened a few decades ago with small towns when K-Marts, Wal-Marts and burger joints started building up on the outskirts of the town. People flocked to the new shopping venues and killed off the small shops in town. Some of those towns today have had a renaissance of sorts by bringing back quaint, but I don’t see malls being able to do that. Who knows, but the main thing is everything has a cycle… even Amazon.
I do some buying at Amazon and would be glad to help.
Why is it that whenever anyone talks about abortion, they still only focus on how it affected them and never about how the abortion affected the child? Are we supposed to feel pity for their terrible feelings of guilt, shame or remorse? I’m never sure what the point of their confession is except to say it continues to be all about them.
I’ve got Amazon setup to donate to local Right to Life.
One will never get past aborting a child. A human being to some is like dumping a dirty diaper in the trash. China has realized their foolish ways of the past by demanding that women have abortions due to population control. Now they find themselves having to reverse that rule:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/19/mosher-china-may-end-two-child-policy-but-what-comes-next-may-be-just-as-bad/
The mental suffering will always be with you. My sister had an abortion, she was a mess for most of her adult life, and died a mess. Once you do the deed you can’t take it back.
That was me above – Goldenfoxx
Mr. Branson, you should have been married to the first womanand problem solved.
@Braden Lynch — You said a mouthful! Yeah, it was so painful for him that he got a second woman pregnant.
Why doesn’t MADD go after drinking and pregnancy? More people are killed by drunk sex.
You have no idea how many times I have heard this story first hand from both the mom’s and the fathers while holding them in my arms. For some it is about them until the light bulb goes on. They and child cannot be separated anymore than The Body of Christ can be separated.
For help internationally or for states, see http://www.rachelsvineyard.org .
@AA: Thank you! My sentiments exactly! 10K^s
Maybe the author was a little late in becoming enlightened, but better late than never. And kudos to him for writing this piece that may help others to become enlightened before it is too late.
And thank you Meerkat for your comments; adjusting our Amazon account as we speak.
Abortion is more barbaric than the child sacrifice of ancient times. Wherein it was seen as an actual sacrifice, it was done in the false belief the sacrifice would in some way bring blessings to the whole community. Abortion is mostly done to avoid an inconvenience or an embarrassment to one or at most two people. As was also said in ancient times, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. (or don’t really want to know / admit)