Two women. Two stories. One incredible Savior. As a post-abortive woman, Dianne shares her journey from the trauma of an abortion to the Cross. As a woman rescued from abortion, Antionette shares of what is possible, when, in the face of great need, we refuse to be silent. 

<p>Two women. Two stories. One incredible Savior. As a post-abortive woman, Dianne shares her journey from the trauma of an abortion to the Cross. As a woman rescued from abortion, Antionette shares of what is possible, when, in the face of great need, we refuse to be silent. </p>

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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

Antionette Duck

Dianne Wagner

Breaking the Silence

I want to thank Pastor Wright for inviting us.

We went to 1 church and the board was very skeptical about having someone come and speak about abortion.

They said, we don't have that problem in this church.

Well, by the close of the weekend, I was able to tell the pastor that, yes, indeed, you do have that problem in this church.

But because it's a secret and most people don't talk about it, who knows, right?

1 of the concerns about speaking on it is making somebody in the congregation feel bad who's had an abortion.

And yes, indeed, we need to be sensitive to that.

But Sometimes I think we hide behind the sensitivity.

I was 1 of the people in the congregation.

I sat there for years and nobody talked about it.

And I believe it's because maybe nobody knew how to talk about it.

For me that was until I met my partner which you'll meet later, Antoinette.

Antoinette was at a youth conference and she had a booth and I had never seen her before And I'm thankful to the Lord to this day because she did use her voice and she answered his calling and didn't shirk it.

I want each 1 of you to know you are here tonight for a reason.

The Lord will anoint you with a ministry.

There are people right now who need to be ministered to, to be given hope that you could very well be that person.

So before I get started, I want to just look over some numbers.

Now the Guttmacher Institute is the research arm of Planned Parenthood, and Every year I look them over just to see what they're putting out.

Apparently they're more accurate than the CDC, which also puts out data every year.

Between 1973 and 2011, 53 million legal abortions took place.

Guttmacher used to put out the number, but for some reason they've stopped.

19% of All pregnancies end in an induced abortion.

An induced abortion is an intentional abortion, intentional interruption of a pregnancy where the life of that fetus is terminated.

And there's 2 types of this induced abortion.

Medical is when you use drugs to terminate that pregnancy.

This is when they go inside the mother's womb and remove the fetus and the placenta.

Now nearly half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by the age of 45, a pregnancy that was not planned.

4 in 10 of those pregnancies are terminated.

Half of these women have already had 1 other abortion.

89% of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of the pregnancy.

They're not any different than you and me.

18% of women obtaining abortions are teenagers.

44% of all abortions performed in the U.S.

About 61% of abortions are obtained by women who already have 1 or more children.

37% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestants.

My mother saw to it that I was in Sabbath school each week.

When I got old enough, I worked at summer camp and loved it.

It was an elementary school that I was baptized.

It was an academy when I gave my heart to Jesus.

Now, I had been baptized, but this is where I really gave my heart to Jesus.

I loved the Bible conference trips and the temperance rallies.

I was involved in all of it, and I treasure those memories.

It was during this time that my parents got a divorce, and I saw the inconsistencies in my church and the hypocrisies, and it threw me for a loop.

I had to step back for a while and ask questions, questions that I'm sure a lot of young adults have to ask.

Was I just growing up in some enchanted little protected bubble and this is reality?

Well God is so good he knows how to answer all our questions.

So by the time my college sweetheart and I were to be married We both knew we wanted a Christian home, and we wanted a Seventh-day Adventist home.

Even with all the problems that I saw, I knew the Lord had anointed this church and that we had been given a high calling.

But with that said, 6 months before I was to be married, everything was shattered.

And I was devastated and embarrassed to death.

How could I break my grandmother's heart?

How could I face the people in my church?

The critical faces, the disappointed faces?

Now my husband and I, we had only been intimate once.

What did make matters worse is the fact that I had had a series of x-rays on my lower back.

I was a traveling nurse and the hospital I worked at in Reno required a series of x-rays.

And when the tech asked me, is there any way you could be pregnant?

I promptly said no, which only added to my embarrassment later, because I knew there was a chance.

Well I called every physician I knew in the area and asked them what they would do if I were your wife.

I was panicking and I was afraid and I was alone.

Every single 1 of them said I would want her to abort.

I called my husband, David, my fiancé at the time, And you know, I don't even remember what he said.

But he did fly to Reno to be with me, and he paid for it.

I asked how much, how far along I had to be, and how much it cost.

At the clinic, I talked to a counselor first.

She was a very sympathetic ear, not a Christian, but she was sympathetic to my dilemma, and she assured me at the time that it was just a fuzzball.

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