A Sturgeon County anti-abortion crusader has written a follow-up book to Forgiven of Murder, her autobiographical account of her early life.
Denise Mountenay’s first book tells of her childhood illness with a lung tumour, her rape as a 13-year-old and her pregnancy at 16. It describes how she turned to drugs and alcohol, and how her mother encouraged her to have an abortion. It later tells of her adulthood spiritual awakening with her renewed vows to Christianity.
The Bride, The Serpent and The Seed is Mountenay’s latest book. Using that previous personal history as a starting point, this book still covers a lot of difficult subject matter. So much so, in fact, that she describes the read as a PG-13 book.
It serves as her argument against abortions. Mountenay says that not only do abortions cause psychological traumas but they also can cause breast cancer, among other physical damages. The author herself admits to having had two lumps removed from her left breast.
Mountenay says abortion can cause “cervical and uterine damage resulting in subsequent miscarriages and pre-term births in ‘wanted’ children which can lead to deafness, blindness, respiratory problems, and autism.” She says abortion can contribute to a host of other problems including sterility, depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and suicide.
She has become so keen in her activism on this matter that she has started Canada Silent No More, an organization devoted to promoting her message. For more than 20 years, she has been making these presentations on a personal crusade around the world, even interacting with the World Health Organization to spur a larger movement against abortion globally.
“Like many women in this generation, I ended up using (abortion) as a form of birth control. I had two more abortions, ignorantly. I was told it was a clump of tissue, no big deal, it’s a safe procedure… I ended up having one abortion wide awake in a clinic and it was very, very traumatic. I curled up into the fetal position after it was over. I remember begging the abortion doctor to stop, that I changed my mind. It actually felt like I was being raped again. I was trapped there.”
The procedure, she continued, resulted in her having a damaged cervix and a badly scarred uterus. Years later, when she was trying again to have children, she had many difficulties. Many of her girlfriends also struggled – and many failed – to have children after their own abortions.
The author provides examples of scientific studies and personal anecdotes from people who have offered their own stories to support her beliefs.
The book is now available on Amazon and Mountenay expects it will soon be available through Indigo also. She plans to do a cross-country speaking tour to complement her book launch this fall.
