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Picture 1: One night Roxie and Ronnie were both invited to the same party by different friend groups. Roxie and Ronnie meet at the party and instantly connected. Later on in the night things went from zero to ten and she work up the next morning with him by her side in bed.
Picture 2: Later the next day she wasn’t feeling that well and not knowing what had happened last night she decided to be cautious and take a pregnancy test. She went to the local pharmacy and took the test in the bathroom of her house. The test came back positive but she still scheduled an appointment with her family doctor.
Picture 3: The following day she arrived at the doctors and told her the story of that night, the doctor told her the procedure and asked her to
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Later when she told the story they gave her two options. Too move out with the unborn child or to have an abortion. Picture 7: Roxie thought about the options and decided it was in her best interest to move out and support her baby.
Picture 8: She later told Ronnie the news. He was beyond happy at this point. He stated he was to young and irresponsible to take care of a child. He told her he only option he wants for the baby is for it to get aborted. He said if she decided to keep the baby she will be all on her own and Roxie couldn’t afford that.
She decided that Ronnie and her parents got the best of her and that abortion was the only way out.
Picture 9: The abortion really hit Roxie hard. She decided that by making this mistake she needed to make an impacted on the world we live in today. She became a part of a prolife group and went around to school talking to young teens about teen pregnancy. She went around telling the story that she once lived I the past. She talked about the emotional destress she aced and how abortion isn’t the only way out. She talked about how you could talk to other people and they will emotional and finally support you in this hard time and you could always put the child up for adoption instead of killing the innocent
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She said how fast your life could change. One day you can have a miracle living inside of you and the next you could end the life of an unborn child. She said that by the flick of a switch your life could do a whole 360 and your world is turned upside down.
Picture 11: Five years later is when the abortion really hit home for Roxie.
Picture 12: Roxie found herself a respectful gentleman and after dating for 6 years they decide to plan a future together. They soon got married and talked about having a family.
Picture 13: When Roxie and her husband, Mike, talked about planning a family the flash back from when she was nineteen came to mind. She would also talk to her friends about how raising children was, but she was still confused on whether she was ready to make this step or not.
Picture 14: She finally decided that having a child was what she had to do. She knew that when taking on the sacrament of marriage she was called to procreation. She knew that what she did in the past will always affect her but she learned to forgive herself. She constantly has various questions come to mind based off her past decisions. What would the child have looked like? What if he or she had true potential in this world? Sometimes she argued with herself over the fact that child had no say in whether he or she wanted to be aborted. She learned that her past life was no one she wanted to reflect on so she further participated

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