Sinitta : I also terminated a pregnancy

Regrets: Sinitta described how having an abortion has had a dramatic effect on her life and was one of the factors which prevented her having children.
'The person I was with thought I was too young, and didn't think I was ready to start a family or that it would be good for me or my career.' Sinitta will not reveal who the father was. It's the emotional fall-out that still preoccupies her now. 'I'm very spiritual,' she says. 'But I did get religious at one point when I kept losing children, thinking, "Maybe this is a divine punishment because I terminated a teenage pregnancy."
'At the time I did it, there was no counselling, nothing. I can remember thinking, "Actually, that wasn't too bad." I was surprised I could wake up the next day and carry on with my life, and nothing terrible had happened to me. You think you've got away with it, and it comes back to get you 20 or so years later, and you're like, "Wow, so that's the price I'm paying for what I did."
'I realised, of course, that God isn't like that – that I wasn't being punished,' continues Sinitta, who has, since 1993, been a minister at the so-called rock 'n' roll church, Hillsong, in London, where she guides young people. 'Now, I don't even let my head go there, because you regret, regret, regret.
'You have to think, "I made a decision. Keep going. You have to be strong." Maybe my whole life would have been different if I hadn't had the termination. But there's no point going there. There were two paths and my life went down one.'

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U.S. Bishops Release Materials for Respect Life Sunday 2009

In preparation for Respect Life Sunday, the U.S. Catholic bishops have made available the 2009-2010 Respect Life Program to help address a variety of pro-life concerns.

This year’s Respect Life Sunday, which will take place on October 4, has as its theme “Every Child Brings Us God’s Smile,” based on comments in a January 2007 homily of Pope Benedict XVI.

The Respect Life flyer explores this theme and provides a timeline of fetal development showing the humanity of unborn children.

Themes addressed in this year’s program include the building of a culture of life and the essence of human dignity. Topics include assisted suicide, contraception, infertility, and same-sex “marriage.”

Printed pamphlets containing Respect Life articles are available on the website of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities and on a CD included in each packet. The CD also contains a poster and a flyer, as well as a liturgy guide, program models, memorable pro-life quotations and more in both English and Spanish.

This year’s liturgy guide offers Intercessions for Life and preaching reflections for both Respect Life Sunday and January 22, the anniversary of the pro-abortion Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. It also includes materials for a Litany to Mary, Mother of Life; a Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe; and a Holy Hour for Life.

The Respect Life Program was begun in 1972 to bring Church teaching on the value and dignity of human life to the Catholic community and the wider public. Respect Life Sunday is observed in almost all of the 195 Catholic dioceses in the United States.