ABORTION HURTS MEN TOO

A recent panel discussion hosted by Live Action founder Lila Rose explored the devastating impact of abortion – not only on women and unborn babies, but also on the men involved. The discussion underscored the often underrepresented voices of the men who have lost their children to abortion. The six-person panel discussion, published on YouTube on June 10, is a part of Live Action’s series “Face to Face”. Two men, Gregory Mayo and Sean Corcoran, spoke about their then girlfriends opting to abort their unborn babies despite their objections. The two women on the panel, Sara Boling and Melissa Manion, also spoke about their own decisions to choose abortion against the wishes of their boyfriends at the time. 

  “She said it’s not a baby and it’s not your decision. And she hung up”, Mayo said. Now a husband and father, Mayo said the abortion “impacted the rest of the next ten years” of his life.

  In his testimony, Corcoran shared that his girlfriend had come to his dorm room and told him she was pregnant and that she planned to get an abortion. “That was counter to everything that I was raised to believe”, he said. “I argued against it”. But despite his protests, his girlfriend and her family insisted on the abortion.  After the abortion, Corcoran said he spiraled into depression, dropped out of school and later became homeless and drug addicted.  Later in counseling, he recognized that the abortion had been the trigger point for the many destructive patterns in his life. 

  Both women on the panel mentioned that their boyfriends’ families offered support caring for their babies with one of the families even offering to raise the child, but both chose abortion because of fear, lack of information and urging from family members or friends who had abortions. Manion’s regret is summed up in her quote – “ …in an instant, I stole fatherhood from a completely innocent and kind man along with ending the life of my child”. Excerpts taken from article by Ashley Sadler, Oregon Right to Life