Mom Contemplated Suicide as a Pregnant Teen, But God Prompted Her to Choose Life

The first time that Rebecca Crist got to hold her son was when he was 28 years old.

The Pennsylvania mother shared the joys and heartaches of her story with The Epoch Times recently, remembering how she nearly committed suicide as a pregnant teen but found peace in choosing adoption and later happiness in being reunited with her son.

“It always astounded me how a decision to place a child for adoption seemed far worse than killing one in the womb,” Crist told the news outlet. “I believe a human is created the moment the egg and sperm unite; what is created at that exact moment is the person he/she will be at birth, when he/she is 10, 50, or 100 years old.”

Crist grew up in a large family and attended Sunday school regularly. But toward the end of high school, she began dating a classmate who was an alcoholic. She eventually decided to end the relationship, but, at age 19, she realized that she was pregnant by him, according to the report.

The thought devastated her, and Crist said she spent three months denying that she really was pregnant. Her circumstances were difficult enough already: She had just undergone a major spinal surgery, and she returned to live with her parents while her father also was struggling with an alcohol addiction. She did not want to be attached to her baby’s alcoholic father either, according to the report.

Though Crist said she never considered abortion, she did think about suicide. And one night when she was five months pregnant, she almost attempted it…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)