Article July 16, 2001 Issue

I asked myself, 'Is abortion the answer?'

How a woman prayed about an unexpected pregnancy

By Donna Haynes

Within A Few months of getting married, I became pregnant. I was a university student working parttime. We were on an extremely tight budget and had a mountain of debt left over from my husband's pre-marriage days.

I felt unprepared for the responsibilities of motherhood. My husband didn't want to have children. As he dropped me off at my job early one morning, he handed me a small piece of paper on which he had written the name and phone number of a doctor who performed abortions. He asked me to consider this alternative to our dilemma. I said I'd pray about what to do.

That morning as I waited for my office to open, I did just that. I didn't know much about prayer, but I knew I loved God and that God loved me. I knew from past experiences that I could go to God for answers about whatever concerned my life. I had seen proofs of God's care for me in healings of sickness and solutions to other problems through prayer.

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