Teenage Abortion Lindsey: A Story Essay

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Skylar, unfortunately, was a handful, and Gladys was already well into middle age. Gladys assumed that since Danielle had abdicated parental responsibility that Lindsey would do the same. She did not feel that she would be able to care for a second baby.

The abortion went through as scheduled, and Lindsey returned to school soon afterwards. For Lindsey, though, things didn't return to normal. The girls at school called her a baby-killer and started making threats against her. She sank into a deep depression. She had deeply wanted the baby and she thought she would have made a good mother. Lindsey was always a quiet person and not one to share her innermost thoughts, so it was a surprise and a blow to everyone when Gladys came home from work early to find Lindsey unconscious in her bedroom, with a suicide note on the dresser and an empty bottle of pills in her hand.

Lindsay survived her suicide attempt, but she was placed in the state mental hospital for six weeks afterwards so that she could get some much-needed counseling and full-time observation. During that time all of the bitterness and sorrow came out over the loss of her baby, the anger towards her mother, and the devastation of having her friends turn on her because of Gladys's decision to terminate the pregnancy.

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Lindsey remained in her black depression for some months afterwards, until Robbie came home for the winter break. He had heard all about the situation. He showed up on their doorstep one winter morning and asked Lindsey point blank, "Why didn't you call me? Why didn't you talk to me? I would have married you. I wouldn't care if it was someone else's baby. I'd have loved it like it was my own."

Lindsey began to cry and could not stop. His words melted the ice that had formed around her soul. Two years later they were married, and he followed his dream of becoming a minister. She is now his wife and the proud parent of a beautiful son and daughter.

Although love and acceptance ultimately helped Lindsey to forgive herself and her mother, she has never forgotten the loss of her baby. Her mother's decision violated her right to choose, and the pain of that choice will haunt her for the rest of her life......

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