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Finding the Courage to Be Silent No More.
Editor's note. Jennifer O'Neill will be the banquet speaker at this year's NRL convention. Please see the ad on page 20 for instructions how to register.
Actress and model Jennifer O'Neill is one of the millions of living victims of abortion - - women who made the devastatingly wrong choice to abort their babies. For many years, she suffered in silence, unable to forgive herself. But now O'Neill has found peace by publicly witnessing to the truth about abortion and God's healing love.
"My life on the outside looked good - - I had fame, fortune, a career," O'Neill told NRL News. "But inside there was a hole in my heart from the time I was a kid."
O'Neill, now 55, had an abortion when she was 20, already a mother of one and well known as an actress and model. "I wanted the baby," O'Neill admitted, "but I was emotionally weak." The unborn baby's father, whose name O'Neill has kept secret, was angry that she was pregnant and even threatened her. Her parents and doctor also encouraged her to have an abortion.
"Everyone said it wasn't a baby yet," O'Neill said. "There were no ultrasounds then and I did not have faith. I felt coerced, but I know I am responsible for what happened. I felt such self-loathing and disappointment."
In the years following her abortion, O'Neill said she continued to think about it but tried not to dwell on her actions. "But it festered, and came out in a lot of different ways," she told NRL News.
O'Neill said that women who regret their abortions suffer in several common ways. They have a much greater incidence of depression, drug and alcohol abuse, inability to have healthy relationships, and even suicide.
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