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 “In high school, I made a poor decision to attend a party one night. I have no memory of the majority of that night, but judging by my appearance and physical condition the next morning, I knew I had been taken advantage of. Three weeks later, I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t tell my friends. I didn’t tell my parents. Truthfully, I didn’t tell anybody. I was ashamed and I was scared. The decision that I made one week later to abort my child was the worst of my life.”

The trauma and heartbreak of her experience is evident in the Facebook post she shared where she says “[I] made a decision that I’ve thought about and regretted nearly every day since. It’s haunted me. It’s made me weep. It’s made it difficult to look in the mirror at times.”
  
This is Stephanie’s Chatfield’s story, her private life, her own personal trauma that she did not wish to publicly share. She has young children like many women in her situation, she most likely wished to shield them from these realities and from the thought that their mother has been assaulted.
 
But Ms Chatfield is married to a politician, Republican Michigan State representative, Lee Chatfield, who is strongly pro-life. The couple had been threatened that Stephanie’s story would be made public, so she decided to tell her story in her own words. She was forced to go public with her story because she was being threatened by an abortion supporter.  
  
This is simply disgusting. But, I’m sorry to say, it is no longer even surprising. Abortion supporters have repeatedly shown their rank hypocrisy and lack of any common decency when it comes to their single-minded pursuit of the right to kill unborn babies.
  
Clearly, for them, being the wife of a pro-life politician means you lose the right to be treated with any compassion. They feel free to try to ‘shame’ and ‘expose’ women on abortion when those woman are pro-life. Forcing a rape victim to speak publicly about her assault and her abortion is just another weapon in their arsenal of sickening tactics.

These are the same people who justify killing unborn babies simply because they are girls. Who try to shut down the voices of women who regret abortions. Who falsely claim that partial-birth abortions (a late-term abortion procedure so ghastly that its description literally makes me feel ill) are necessary. Who cover-up the deaths of women in abortion clinics. Who threaten pro-life women by saying “I hope you get raped and have an abortion’.

Their actions and attitudes are echoed in the behaviour of Irish abortion campaigners to Miss C, a young rape survivor brought for an abortion by the State when she became pregnant after rape, and who says that ‘the abortion has been harder to get over than the rape’ . Her story has been censored and her trauma dismissed by abortion advocates because she doesn’t suit their agenda.

Forcing a woman to reveal her story of abortion after rape is a vile, disgusting tactic. Stephanie Chatfield took the brave step of coming forward before someone else, acting with great malice, used her past trauma to attack her family. But she shouldn’t have been forced to.

Her message to women and girls is that “if you’re facing an unplanned pregnancy, whatever the circumstances, know that those around you love you and want to help you…. The support is there. You will not be judged, but rather you will be loved and forgiven. Be courageous. Reach out and look for support!”

Women and their babies deserve better than abortion. And they deserve better than the cruel, exploitative and downright disgusting tactics of abortion campaigners.