<\/em>Iman Essiet didn\u2019t want to become another negative statistic. \u00a0Yet\u00a0this beautiful African-American woman became pregnant when she was just 16. Iman was living in Brooklyn, New York, being raised by her older sister. Like most young women, she was in search of love.<\/p>\nDeep inside her heart, Iman knew abortion was wrong. She was a professed atheist whose thoughts about abortion didn\u2019t come from a religious background. They had nothing to do with politics either. Iman had just always said she\u2019d never get an abortion, because abortion was murder. \u00a0Unfortunately, negative circumstances have a way of driving us to do things we know we shouldn\u2019t. Read more...<\/a> (1226 words, estimated 4:54 mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\nThis is a preview of
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