From the full post, available on my website ConservativeFeminism.com:

I never understood the abortion issue until I had a miscarriage in July 2006. She was a baby I wanted terribly - the daughter I wanted to cherish with my husband - and when I found I was pregnant I was ecstatic. When I was three months along, my husband was sent to a training program for new Navy technology; he'd be gone a month. Only a few days later, I started spotting and cramping. Within hours, I had lost the baby. It took me weeks to recover physically; I had lost a lot of blood.

I will never recover emotionally. I loved that baby as much as if I'd held her in my arms. Today, when I watch my two daughters (both born after I lost her), I can "see" the echo of the little girl who could never be playing with them, brushing their hair, singing and playing games. Women who have abortions know, just as I did, that the baby was real - even when they bury the truth, hide it from themselves. Most will always regret the baby they never had, and some will regret it mightily.

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