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Heidi's mother, Tina, was told her life would be ruined if she had a baby at age seventeen. She was offered no alternative to abortion. At approximately 10 weeks gestation, Tina was ask to sign a waver and pay $150 in cash. She was the given a valium and asked to lie on her back, next to a suction machine. When the suction started Tina recalls,"My body started to vibrate. I felt my insides being pulled out, all of them." She told the accompanying nurse "I am dying! "The abortionist responded, "empty your bladder." Next came the curette, a loop-shaped knife used to scrape out the remains of an unborn child. Once the abortion was presumably finished, the nurse remarked to Tina in surprise,"You're not bleeding" and proceeded to send Tina home with birth control pills and antibiotics.
After two months of sickness, Tina informed her regular physician about the abortion. Her physician examined her carefully and told her the abortion had failed. He also told her to get an attorney.
Tina's days were now filled with anguish over the well-being of her child. Fear gripped her heart. She could not forget the powerful suction machine tearing at her baby. "Why is my baby still alive?" she asked herself. "What is its destiny?" In the months to follow, Tina's fear increased when three amniocenteses produced blood instead of amniotic fluid.
Distraught, Tina took her receipts and waiver and grievance to a lawyer, who contacted the clinic that preformed Tina's abortion. When told by the clinic personnel that Tina's file was "misplaced" the attorney told Tina he could do nothing more.
At 38 weeks gestation, Tina was given an oxytocin challenge exam , with a positive result, and labor was induced. when her baby's heart rate dropped, her doctor preformed a C-section, and the result was a beautiful baby girl 3 lbs., 3 ozs., and 15 inches long. Tina's physician termed the baby "a miracle." She had survived with minimal placenta and minimal amniotic fluid.
Today, Heidi is a beautiful, energy-charged adolescent who loves slumber parties an pizza, yet speaks with gentle authority to overflow audiences throughout America.
With her traveling companion and best of friend, Mom, she also spends many hours in front of abortion clinics, urging would-be victims not to enter the killing centers that for the past 20 years have claimed over 30 million reported preborn lives in the U.S.
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