Action4Canada - May 14, 2026


My Choice, My Life, My Regret, My Redemption

Topics
abortion grief and choice
Hosted by
Tanya Gaw
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

203.83

Word count

508

Sentence count

21

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the abortion crisis and the reasons behind it, the impact it can have on a woman's life, and how it can affect her relationship with her children. We also discuss the impact of abortion on a mother's ability to bond with her child.

Transcript

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00:00:00 your life starts to get gray and you disconnect with things, things you found joy in doing are
00:00:04 not as joy inducing. I mean, even me distancing myself from my femininity, I wonder sometimes how
00:00:11 much that was actually also potentially related to the abortion, because on some level, I didn't
00:00:15 want to be associated with the very thing that allowed me to bear life in the first place.
00:00:21 Yes, to increased promiscuity. And there's often this sort of like replacement baby syndrome,
00:00:26 where you're so grieved at what's what's happened that you want to have another baby but then you
00:00:31 end up being in the same situation where you're like oh well I can't have this baby and then you
00:00:35 get another abortion and so unfortunately that can also be really common just just kind of repeat
00:00:39 abortions which is is really really sad um and yeah you know it that this whole notion about
00:00:48 choice is so interesting to me because well first of all we're talking about two people not just one
00:00:53 person, but also it's not doing the woman any favors to get an abortion. So, you know, when
00:01:00 people are proclaiming from the rooftop that this is female empowerment, it's not female empowerment 0.99
00:01:05 to end the life of your own child. We're made with an innate desire to care for and love our
00:01:11 children. And whether we want to pretend it's a cluster of cells or not on a level, we know it's
00:01:18 our child. And there is grief from that. There is difficulty from that. And people can certainly
00:01:24 consciously or unconsciously put that into the back of their mind and deny for years and years.
00:01:30 But, you know, when I share my testimony, often I hear from women who say, well, thank you for
00:01:35 sharing because I've never told anyone. I remember one of the first times I shared a woman who was
00:01:39 in her late 80s said, well, I've never really told anyone. I haven't even told my daughter.
00:01:44 I had an abortion when I was 17 and she had tears in her eyes. And she says, like, I've never been
00:01:47 able to tell anyone. And, and she was a Christian and she's like, you know, I know that, you know,
00:01:52 God's forgiving, but clearly that is something that had, had taken a hold on her. And that
00:01:57 because she hadn't shared it and processed it with the Lord, it had just, you know, created
00:02:02 this deep wound. And I do believe that the Lord does want to bring healing and forgiveness to
00:02:07 those who, who seek him. He doesn't want people to be weighed down by this. That doesn't mean
00:02:11 he's condoning it. Obviously, if anyone's pregnant now and is thinking about it, like
00:02:15 choose life because life is a blessing and you will be blessed by that life and you won't regret
00:02:21 it um the reality is too that i didn't know i was already a mother at eight weeks at conception i
00:02:28 was already a mother