Reduced to tears in parliament

Jamaican parliament. Where they heard powerful testimony by a woman who has never fully recovered from forcing her daughter to have an abortion…..20 years ago.

A recent presentation by a woman who 20 years ago bullied her daughter into having an abortion reduced members of the Jamaican parliament to tears, reports the Jamaica Gleaner. 

Anne Arthur, a grief counselor, told the parliament she has never fully recovered from having bullied her daughter into killing her unborn child. “I drove my daughter to the abortion clinic like a lamb to the slaughterhouse, against her will,” Arthur told her audience.

“I pressed my views on her and convinced her that she would be unable to care for the child while studying and an abortion would be the best thing to do, offering her no other solution or help … While my 12-week-old grand-daughter was ripped apart from my daughter’s womb, I knew with brutal clarity that I had made the greatest mistake of my life,” said Arthur.

Brutal clarity. How sad when someone has to arrive at it that way.