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REGINA: What compelled you to share your story?

ISABEL: I want to help prove to the world that abortion is not the answer. If I can become pro-life, anyone can.

Pro-choice people always make the argument that rape and incest should surely be reasonable grounds to have an abortion but whilst I would have agreed with that once, I know from experience it only makes matters worse.

REGINA: How do you feel about these ‘pro-choice’ people presuming to speak for women with your experience?

ISABEL: These people don't speak for me. I was a victim of rape and incest. I ended my pregnancy and that has traumatised me just as much, if not more than the way in which the child was conceived.

And she WAS a child, no matter what lies are taught in biology classes in even some Catholic schools.

REGINA: You were a victim of a pedophile ring, which your own father was a part of. How has that shaped your life from an early age?

ISABEL: They say personality is fixed by the time a child is five and my abuse started when I was still only a baby. My earliest memory is from around the age of two, so this was my normal.

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