For years, Jeff and Tricia Bradford kept their abortion a secret from their friends and church community.
“We hid our story, because of the deep shame and regret that we had,” Jeff Bradford says.
The couple was engaged when Tricia, then 20, learned she was pregnant. “Fear didn’t waste a second coming into that conversation and shame,” she said. “And so, we just immediately thought, ‘What are we going to do?’”
The couple reached out to a family member and received some “terrible advice,” the husband says, adding that a few days later, he and his wife “ended up at Planned Parenthood, and we took the life of our first daughter, and we didn’t talk about it for 17 years.”
Even being active members in their church, the couple says, they “sat in the pew silent” because no one in their community talked about the issue of life or…
