She endured a rape, two abortions, and an abusive husband before she grabbed a lifeline from God

She endured a rape, two abortions, and an abusive husband before she grabbed a lifeline from God
By Mark Ellis, Special to ASSIST News Service
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS -- June 9, 2015) -- In the summer before her senior year in high school, Anna Chambers was on vacation at Lake Tahoe with a friend.
“We had too much freedom,” Anna admits today. She is the author of My Name is Mom (WestBow Press), a heartrending account of her tumultuous young life before she found healing from the Author of Life.
One night during the summer vacation, Anna and her friend walked up the street to a party. “The minute we walked through the front door, we realized that we were in way over our heads,” she recounts.
When they left the party, two “nicely dressed, clean-cut young men” who identified themselves as firefighters offered to walk them home “to protect them.” One of these wolves in sheep’s clothing raped 17-year-old Anna that night.
“I had never been so scared and so confused,” she says. “He looked at me with a hatred that I had never seen before.”
Afraid to tell her parents or go to the police, Anna confided in Christine, the “cool mom that allowed all the high school students to party at her house,” and kept her home stocked with liquor and cigarettes.
Christine reassured the frightened young woman that if she was pregnant, there was a “simple solution” to remove the “blob of tissue,” – just like removing a small cyst.
After the pregnancy was confirmed by the abortion clinic and Anna was able to find the cash they wanted up-front, she ditched school and Christine drove her to the abortion clinic, where a machine that sounded like a vacuum cleaner sucked the developing life from her womb.
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About the writer: Mark Ellis is a senior correspondent for ASSIST News Service and also the founder of www.Godreports.com,  a website that shares stories, testimonies and videos from the church around the world to build interest and involvement in world missions.
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