Priscilla Hurley, who survived her mother’s attempt to have an abortion in the womb, chose to have an abortion at the ages of 19 and 25 and worked in an abortion clinic for three years before deciding to take a different direction in your life.

Hurley now works with organizations “And then there was none” And “The Abortion Survivors Network,” sharing her story of the trauma she experienced as an abortion survivor, participant and provider. She now has three children and 11 grandchildren.

“Probably at least 7,000 babies were taken while I was working at an abortion clinic, so those things in my heart had to be reconciled,” Hurley told Fox News Digital. “Lots of forgiveness, lots of healing.”

“My story started in the womb, when my mother was pregnant with me,” she said. “It was my first experience with an abortion.”

Hurley’s mother, a widow and mother of four, panicked during the second trimester of her pregnancy because she didn’t have enough support around her. So she found someone to attempt a surgical abortion to “end her problem.”

“This is a familiar justification for many women today, as they continue to resort to abortion to solve a problem,” she said. “She (her mother) said she and the doctor thought it was probably a twin, my twin, whose life had been taken that day,” Hurley said of the attempt abortion in the uterus.

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The first time Hurley became pregnant, she was a 19-year-old college student. She went to her mother and stepfather for answers, and they arranged for her first abortion.

“It wasn’t federally legal yet, it was legal in California, but it was under general anesthesia,” she said. “I had no conscious memory of it, but I went into the hospital pregnant and I came out not pregnant.”

“I was really devastated looking back… I went back to college and my life spiraled out of control at that point, really out of control,” she said.

Hurley became pregnant again after Roe v. Wade, but her abortion was a “different experience” the second time.

“It was terribly painful because it was local anesthesia, a popular surgical procedure, but with vacuum suction, so you’re conscious, you’re awake, and I realized at that moment that something really devastating had happened,” she said. said.

“I was truly a hurt woman at that point,” she added. “I was traumatized and hurt, and I was acting rebellious.”

But even after her second abortion, Hurley thought that if she worked in the abortion industry, in a clinic, it might help other women not feel “so bad and alone” about choosing to ‘abort. For three years, Hurley worked at a private women’s clinic in San Francisco that received overflow from Planned Parenthood, where she and other clinic employees relied on messages that abortion would help women to “solve a problem”.

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“When I worked at the abortion clinic, we watched women during procedures and encouraged them,” she recalls. “It was a little twisted, but that’s what we did. It was our job.”

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Hurley said the abortion industry, as well as politicians, play a role in messaging around abortion that leads to “alarmism” among womenespecially those in “desperate situations”.

“Because I’ve worked in the industry and a lot of people will tell you… There’s a dialogue that goes on with women who come in, and one of them is you’re already playing in sort of about their fears,” she said. “You try to bring them in because abortion is money, so you always have to come back to it.”

She also said that politicians like Vice President Kamala Harris and his former running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, are also part of the “money machine” spreading the abortion message.

“When you talk about my body, my choice: ‘Well, excuse me, hello, I’m a living human being who was once in the womb and whose life was threatened by abortion,'” Hurley said.

“Here is a person who you think is not worth living, not valued enough to have the right to live and yet here I am with a productive life, having to overcome a lot of his trauma, but with a productive life, with children and grandchildren,” she said. “When you say abortion is a good thing, you exclude generations of people. Generations.”

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Hurley said if she had someone to support her when she was considering an abortion, she might have made different decisions.

“Even though my parents thought they were doing the right thing, it really hurt me,” she said. “When you think about what my mother went through, the decision she made to have an abortion, the trauma it caused in her life, the trauma it caused in my life before I was even born… .my mother, she had no one to talk to about it, and yet she potentially participated in the death of her other child and mine.

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“In surviving this, I have a unique testimony, like many abortion survivors, it was me, this clump of cells, this fetus, whatever the abortion supporters want to say, it was me,” she said.

Hurley suffered a near-fatal car accident, which she described as divine intervention to get her attention. She got a job opportunity in Alaska and never looked back. Today, Hurley said her goal is to help women humanize their babies and recognize the value of the child they are carrying.

“I got pregnant again…and I decided at that point I had a master’s degree. I was 30 years old. No one was going to tell me to abort again,” Hurley said.

“One of the responses to trauma is submission to authority,” she said. “As an abortion survivor, there’s always this kind of ‘I’m not seen, I’m not valued’ where you don’t really feel like your voice matters. I finally found my voice through I was 30 years old and I decided to have my son.”

Hurley said his work is part of his healing experience. She joined a community of people who have had similar experiences with abortion and its complications, even though the issue is often not discussed publicly on a personal level.

“The women seeing that ultrasound and seeing their baby, seeing the heartbeat…seeing that on screen, it kind of takes you out of that place of ‘My God, that’s not a human being, this ‘It’s just a fetus, it’s a clump of cells.’ to ‘It’s a beating heart, I can see the toes, I can see the fingers,'” she said.

“It took me a long time to reconcile those experiences, because I survived,” she said. “My children did not survive.”

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