They are women who were told it was all about them – all about their choices, their reproductive freedom. But as many of them have discovered, they weren’t told the whole truth. And they have been ignored for much of the last 30 years.

Not any more. Women who have had abortions – and who have suffered through the intense emotional and physical repercussions of those abortions – are speaking up. They have stories to tell, and they are insisting that they will be silent no longer.

Operation Outcry: Silent No More is giving women that opportunity. Started by Allan E. Parker Jr., CEO and Founder of The Texas Justice Foundation (TJF), the pro-life organization encourages women to publicly tell the truth about the horrors of abortion.

“There are two great lies about abortion. One is that it’s not a baby being killed; the other is that it’s good for women,” Parker told Dr. Richard Land, host of the For Faith and Family radio program. “The goal of Operation Outcry, legally, is to completely destroy those lies with the testimony of women who have had abortions and have been injured – physically and emotionally – by them.”

Susan Renne Mosley, a spokeswoman for the group, has written and spoken about her own painful experience as an abortion survivor. Mosley had an abortion at age 16, and beyond the physical complications from it, her life disintegrated into promiscuity, drugs and suicide attempts. Only the salvation and forgiveness Mosley experienced through Christ arrested the downward spiral of guilt-induced self-destructive behavior.

“Abortion did not protect me. It hurt me in every aspect of my being. I have suffered greatly physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually,” she said.

Mosley’s testimony is carried on one of the organization’s Web sites, www.silentnomorecampaign.com, which offers hope for women traumatized by abortion.

Parker said there is no question about where that help comes from for these suffering women. He said one of the organ-ization’s goals “is to reach out to post-abortive women in the name of Jesus
Christ to bring salvation and healing.”

Once women are able to find the peace that comes from Christ, they are often moved to share their experiences, and Parker said that is a unique aspect of Operation Outcry’s approach.

“We are gathering actual evidence to be used in trial,” he said. “Our goal is to have thousands, if not tens of thousands, of affidavits from post-abortive women wherein they tell the court their story.”

To which court is Parker referring? The same court which legalized abortion in the first place – the U.S. Supreme Court. TJF is representing both Norma McCorvey, who was designated “Roe” in the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, and Sandra Cano, the “Doe” of Doe v. Bolton, a less famous but important follow-up Supreme Court case.

“Both women are deeply concerned and have come to the conviction that abortion is not the answer for women who are in a vulnerable pregnancy,” Parker said.

The unique approach taken by TJF is based on a little-known quirk in Supreme Court jurisprudence: under federal rules the original plaintiffs can petition the high court to revisit a case if new evidence has arisen. Parker believes the thousands of affidavits they are collecting will meet that threshold.

Women who want their voices heard should hurry to do so – Norma McCorvey will file her petition to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dallas on June 17. Sandra Cano will file a similar motion on her case in Atlanta on August 24. Parker said they want to have as many women’s affidavits as possible by those dates. He said women can call 210-614-7157 or download an affidavit form from www.operationoutcry.org.

AFA is one of the numerous pro-family groups endorsing Operation Outcry: Silent No More. “Since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in this country 30 years ago, thousands of women have bought the lie that abortion is a simple and painless way to end a pregnancy,” said AFA Chairman Don Wildmon. “But as Operation Outcry: Silent No More has demonstrated, these women want to tell the truth that abortion is neither simple nor painless.”

Other groups supporting Operation Outcry: Silent No More include Focus on the Family, the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Priests for Life, Ramah International, Rachel’s Vineyard/ American Life League, the Elliot Institute, and Life Issues Institute, Inc.