US

Father Explains The Pain He Endured When His Partners Aborted Their Unborn Children

Shutterstock/ Olena Hromova

Daily Caller News Foundation logo
Grace Carr Reporter
Font Size:

A father who lost two unborn babies to abortions decades ago has expressed the pain and guilt he felt following his partners’ decisions.

“The choice to terminate your child’s life will change you forever,” Nashville resident Keith Branson told The Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday. While it may seem difficult at first to keep the child as part of your life or to give up the baby for adoption, “the consequence of your choice to have sex should not be murder that will just compound your guilt and misery for years to come,” he said.

He recounted that two different women aborted two of his children and he struggled to come to grips with ending two lives for a long time. His first partner made him promise not to tell anyone she was pregnant and had an abortion against his will.

“I was a paralyzed, young, self-focused guy with no clue what to do but to become passive with no plan of action,” Branson told TheDCNF. His partner went to a friend to get the abortion and didn’t offer for him to be involved.

Branson recounted that his second partner didn’t tell him she was pregnant until after she already had an abortion.

“My relationship ended in both cases,” Branson told TheDCNF. “Neither of the women has given me permission to share about them, nor have I been able to speak to either since about it.” 

“The gravity of what happened in both situations hit me hard,” he continued, explaining that he’d put the guilt and shame he felt in a box and was afraid to remove the lid. “For decades I tried to mask the pain and negative emotions from it by escapism.”

Following the abortions, Branson struggled with alcohol and drugs and prayed for forgiveness in order to feel able to move forward through the pain. His prayers eventually set him free, but “the regret of what I had done has always been a part of my memories.”

His comments come on the heels of a June 12 #ChooseFatherhood video featuring fathers and would-be fathers describing the pain and regret they experienced when their partners aborted their unborn children.  (RELATED: Save The Storks Vans Protecting Thousands Of Babies From Abortion [VIDEO])

Branson has been married for 32 years and has three children and four grandchildren.

He is the the director of the nonprofit “Westminster Home Connection, which provides critical home repairs and mobility modifications to low income seniors in Middle Tennessee. He also served as the director of Youth Encouragement Services and Beam Research Center.

Follow Grace on Twitter.

All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

PREMIUM ARTICLE: Subscribe To Keep Reading

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign Up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
BENEFITS READERS PASS PATRIOTS FOUNDERS
Daily and Breaking Newsletters
Daily Caller Shows
Ad Free Experience
Exclusive Articles
Custom Newsletters
Editor Daily Rundown
Behind The Scenes Coverage
Award Winning Documentaries
Patriot War Room
Patriot Live Chat
Exclusive Events
Gold Membership Card
Tucker Mug

What does Founders Club include?

Tucker Mug and Membership Card
Founders

Readers,

Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight.

Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence.

We don't complain -- we can't stand complainers -- but we do call it how we see it. We have a fight on our hands, and it's intense. We need your help to smash through the big tech, big media and big government blockade.

We're the insurgent outsiders for a reason: our deep-dive investigations hold the powerful to account. Our original videos undermine their narratives on a daily basis. Even our insistence on having fun infuriates them -- because we won’t bend the knee to political correctness.

One reason we stand apart is because we are not afraid to say we love America. We love her with every fiber of our being, and we think she's worth saving from today’s craziness.

Help us save her.

A second reason we stand out is the sheer number of honest responsible reporters we have helped train. We have trained so many solid reporters that they now hold prominent positions at publications across the political spectrum. Hear a rare reasonable voice at a place like CNN? There’s a good chance they were trained at Daily Caller. Same goes for the numerous Daily Caller alumni dominating the news coverage at outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, Daily Wire and many others.

Simply put, America needs solid reporters fighting to tell the truth or we will never have honest elections or a fair system. We are working tirelessly to make that happen and we are making a difference.

Since 2010, The Daily Caller has grown immensely. We're in the halls of Congress. We're in the Oval Office. And we're in up to 20 million homes every single month. That's 20 million Americans like you who are impossible to ignore.

We can overcome the forces lined up against all of us. This is an important mission but we can’t do it unless you — the everyday Americans forgotten by the establishment — have our back.

Please consider becoming a Daily Caller Patriot today, and help us keep doing work that holds politicians, corporations and other leaders accountable. Help us thumb our noses at political correctness. Help us train a new generation of news reporters who will actually tell the truth. And help us remind Americans everywhere that there are millions of us who remain clear-eyed about our country's greatness.

In return for membership, Daily Caller Patriots will be able to read The Daily Caller without any of the ads that we have long used to support our mission. We know the ads drive you crazy. They drive us crazy too. But we need revenue to keep the fight going. If you join us, we will cut out the ads for you and put every Lincoln-headed cent we earn into amplifying our voice, training even more solid reporters, and giving you the ad-free experience and lightning fast website you deserve.

Patriots will also be eligible for Patriots Only content, newsletters, chats and live events with our reporters and editors. It's simple: welcome us into your lives, and we'll welcome you into ours.

We can save America together.

Become a Daily Caller Patriot today.

Signature

Neil Patel