Survivor of parents’ 3 attempted Abortions

My mother was 22 and a newlywed when she found out she was pregnant. She was ecstatic, but my father was not. I was conceived on their honeymoon. My father didn’t want another child as he already had two children from a previous marriage, so my father proceeded to make arrangements for my mother to have an abortion, which was still illegal at the time.

The first abortion attempt

“I hope my testimony will bring light and healing for those who went through abortion, who are thinking about an abortion, and for those who survived an abortion.”

The first time my father tried to abort me, he drugged my mother to take her for the illegal abortion. When they got to the place, the money he had was not enough, so they went back home. A few days later, he snuck some medication into her tea that made her very dizzy and sleepy. Early that morning he took her to another town close to Johannesburg; they drove on this dirt road while the sun was coming up. My father stopped the car at a farm, with long