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They held her down and aborted her baby, and her life was forever changed
At 12 years old, Lorraine Robbins participated in a pro-life march against abortion at the nation’s capital with her parents when Roe v. Wade was signed into federal law. Just six years later, as a scared and pregnant young woman, Robbins walked into Planned Parenthood for an abortion.
When Lorraine Robbins was 18, she became pregnant and was convinced to get an abortion. While there, she changed her mind, but a nurse held her down and staff aborted her baby anyway. She experienced immediate regret.
She never told her boyfriend, and later went on to marry someone else. They had three children, but the anger and other issues from her abortion contributed to the end of her marriage.
She later met and married another man who had lost his first child to abortion. Eventually they both found healing, and today, Robbins helps women through her work at a pregnancy resource center.
Robbins told Live Action News:
“I was an 18-year-old high school senior and felt I had to get out from underneath this unexpected pregnancy. I was afraid to tell my parents, and my boyfriend didn’t believe I was pregnant, so we got into a fierce argument. I didn’t know what to do.
A family member told me to go to Planned Parenthood. I kept hoping to work it out with my boyfriend, but to no avail.”
It may have been a summer day, but to Robbins it was cold and dreary. She recalls the staff at Planned Parenthood telling her she was better off having the abortion. After all, they said, it was just a “clump of cells.”
Robbins said, “'You’ll have more children one day,' I was told. Once you get in there, you’re not coming out pregnant.”
In the exam room, Robbins decided she didn’t want to have the abortion, but the nurse held her down firmly, telling her the surgery was almost over.
“It was very painful,” she said. “I just wanted to get out of there, so I told them I had a ride and needed to leave.”
But that was not true. She had driven her dad’s pickup truck to the facility, telling her parents she had a dentist’s appointment. Once home, she immediately regretted what she had done.
“I cried for days,” she recalls. “I was so sad. My boyfriend never knew about the abortion.”
Robbins felt an overwhelming desire to get pregnant again. Now graduated, she was hired for a government job where she met a man.
“I got pregnant and married him,” Robbins said. “But I struggled with such anger. I didn’t know where it came from. I would go into the bedroom to put away clothes and come out angry. I knew something wasn’t right with me.”
When she gave birth to her son, she was afraid God was going to take him from her, so she hovered over him like a “helicopter mom.”
Years later, after having three sons with her husband, he left her.
Robbins said, “I always felt disconnected from him. I think it’s because I was still emotionally tied to my previous boyfriend. My husband paid the penance for my unresolved issues.”
She was a single mom for three years, having no contact with her ex-husband, when she met a caring man who confided that his only child was aborted by his college girlfriend.
Even knowing this, Robbins kept her own abortion secret.
“We moved to Arizona and God opened the door for me to volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center,” she said. “That’s when I finally got the courage to admit that I had an abortion. Everyone there was accepting and supportive.”
Buoyed by the support of the staff, Robbins found the courage to finally come clean with her husband about her past. By then, they had been married 15 years.
Robbins said, “He just held me and cried. He told me he had wished he had been there during that time. My revelation changed my relationship with him.”
She and her husband went through both went through post-abortion recovery.
“Afterward, we started hosting groups for men and women,” Robbins said. “We decided to name our aborted children to give them identities.”
Eventually, Robbins transitioned from working as a volunteer to being hired as receptionist at the center. Her career with the center blossomed from there.
She noted, “I was then promoted to Senior Center Director, then transitioned to doing five years of post-abortion recovery and now I’m back to serving as Director. I truly love what I do here, helping men and women heal from the trauma of abortion.”
Her tenure with the pregnancy center has transformed her life in many ways. She recalls struggling under the load of shame and anger, suffering in silence for 22 years.
“I thought I was a terrible person for what I had done,” Robbins said. “I couldn’t tell anyone. I had gone against my moral convictions. But at the time, there wasn’t a pregnancy support center I could turn to for help.”
Yet many years later, she would break free from the chains of guilt and shame and experience a freedom she never knew existed.
Robbins said, “I am so grateful to Choices Pregnancy Center for walking alongside me in my healing journey. I am free from the shame I kept buried for so long.”
For Robbins, it’s cathartic to be involved in helping others shed the shame like she did.
“I truly love coming to work every day,” she said. “It’s gratifying to help women successfully navigate through challenges, guiding them toward the redemption that God desires for all of us.”
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·They held her down and aborted her baby, and her life was forever changed
At 12 years old, Lorraine Robbins participated in a pro-life march against abortion at the nation’s capital with her parents when Roe v. Wade was signed into federal law. Just six years later, as a scared and pregnant young woman, Robbins walked into Planned Parenthood for an abortion.
When Lorraine Robbins was 18, she became pregnant and was convinced to get an abortion. While there, she changed her mind, but a nurse held her down and staff aborted her baby anyway. She experienced immediate regret.
She never told her boyfriend, and later went on to marry someone else. They had three children, but the anger and other issues from her abortion contributed to the end of her marriage.
She later met and married another man who had lost his first child to abortion. Eventually they both found healing, and today, Robbins helps women through her work at a pregnancy resource center.
Robbins told Live Action News:
“I was an 18-year-old high school senior and felt I had to get out from underneath this unexpected pregnancy. I was afraid to tell my parents, and my boyfriend didn’t believe I was pregnant, so we got into a fierce argument. I didn’t know what to do.
A family member told me to go to Planned Parenthood. I kept hoping to work it out with my boyfriend, but to no avail.”
It may have been a summer day, but to Robbins it was cold and dreary. She recalls the staff at Planned Parenthood telling her she was better off having the abortion. After all, they said, it was just a “clump of cells.”
Robbins said, “'You’ll have more children one day,' I was told. Once you get in there, you’re not coming out pregnant.”
In the exam room, Robbins decided she didn’t want to have the abortion, but the nurse held her down firmly, telling her the surgery was almost over.
“It was very painful,” she said. “I just wanted to get out of there, so I told them I had a ride and needed to leave.”
But that was not true. She had driven her dad’s pickup truck to the facility, telling her parents she had a dentist’s appointment. Once home, she immediately regretted what she had done.
“I cried for days,” she recalls. “I was so sad. My boyfriend never knew about the abortion.”
Robbins felt an overwhelming desire to get pregnant again. Now graduated, she was hired for a government job where she met a man.
“I got pregnant and married him,” Robbins said. “But I struggled with such anger. I didn’t know where it came from. I would go into the bedroom to put away clothes and come out angry. I knew something wasn’t right with me.”
When she gave birth to her son, she was afraid God was going to take him from her, so she hovered over him like a “helicopter mom.”
Years later, after having three sons with her husband, he left her.
Robbins said, “I always felt disconnected from him. I think it’s because I was still emotionally tied to my previous boyfriend. My husband paid the penance for my unresolved issues.”
She was a single mom for three years, having no contact with her ex-husband, when she met a caring man who confided that his only child was aborted by his college girlfriend.
Even knowing this, Robbins kept her own abortion secret.
“We moved to Arizona and God opened the door for me to volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center,” she said. “That’s when I finally got the courage to admit that I had an abortion. Everyone there was accepting and supportive.”
Buoyed by the support of the staff, Robbins found the courage to finally come clean with her husband about her past. By then, they had been married 15 years.
Robbins said, “He just held me and cried. He told me he had wished he had been there during that time. My revelation changed my relationship with him.”
She and her husband went through both went through post-abortion recovery.
“Afterward, we started hosting groups for men and women,” Robbins said. “We decided to name our aborted children to give them identities.”
Eventually, Robbins transitioned from working as a volunteer to being hired as receptionist at the center. Her career with the center blossomed from there.
She noted, “I was then promoted to Senior Center Director, then transitioned to doing five years of post-abortion recovery and now I’m back to serving as Director. I truly love what I do here, helping men and women heal from the trauma of abortion.”
Her tenure with the pregnancy center has transformed her life in many ways. She recalls struggling under the load of shame and anger, suffering in silence for 22 years.
“I thought I was a terrible person for what I had done,” Robbins said. “I couldn’t tell anyone. I had gone against my moral convictions. But at the time, there wasn’t a pregnancy support center I could turn to for help.”
Yet many years later, she would break free from the chains of guilt and shame and experience a freedom she never knew existed.
Robbins said, “I am so grateful to Choices Pregnancy Center for walking alongside me in my healing journey. I am free from the shame I kept buried for so long.”
For Robbins, it’s cathartic to be involved in helping others shed the shame like she did.
“I truly love coming to work every day,” she said. “It’s gratifying to help women successfully navigate through challenges, guiding them toward the redemption that God desires for all of us.”
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Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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