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“Planned Parenthood has one agenda, and one agenda only, and it’s to end the life of your child for profit. They don’t care about you after. They send you on your way, you’re not going to get a follow-up…That’s it – there’s no care, there’s no compassion, there’s no follow-up. They’re telling them this is normal – and it’s not normal. This is not normal.”

Serena Dyksen was just 13 years old when she was sexually assaulted and brought to infamous abortionist George Klopfer for an abortion. She had no concept of abortion – she’d never even heard the word before. Yet like so many young girls and women, she trusted that the medical “professionals” at the facility would help her. She soon learned how little the abortion industry truly cares about women.

Upon arrival, Serena was separated from her parents and put in a counseling room. The facility staff spoke to her about “clumps of cells” and other abortion-related rhetoric that went over Serena’s 13-year-old head. Instead, she noted the extreme dirtiness of the room as abortionist George Klopfer entered.

Serena remembered him as cold and callous. The very first words he spoke to her were, “This won’t take long.”

Then she experienced the worst pain of her life.

“I’ve actually given birth twice with natural births – no medications, no nothing – and the abortion was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Serena says. “I felt like I was assaulted all over again.”

Her agonizing abortion experience only compounded her trauma and pain, rather than providing healing or help, as she had been promised.

“We can’t help what someone else does to us,” she says, “but it is a very heavy weight to carry knowing you were part of ending an innocent life.”

Serena’s mother also experienced torment from the experience. Standing outside the door, she listened in agony as her daughter screamed for help – yet she was told she couldn’t help Serena. All she wanted was to be with her screaming daughter, but the facility staff went so far as to call the police, who made her go outside and sit in her car.

When they finished the painful abortion, Serena was left without her mother. She began to hemorrhage upon leaving the center; despite this, the staff did not offer her any additional care, resources or support. Instead, they sent her home with the impossible task of trying to forget the entire traumatic ordeal.

For Serena’s mother, the experience was so trying, she had to be admitted for inpatient psychiatric treatment for two weeks.

Serena later found out that the facility was shut down after authorities discovered that Klopfer had been performing abortions on other 13-year-old victims of sexual abuse – and not only did he fail to report the incidents, but he was also sending the girls back to their abusers.

Then, when Serena was 16 years old, she had an unexpected pregnancy with her high school boyfriend. The couple visited a local Planned Parenthood, where they were told that they should abort their child because they were “young, in school and poor.”

For the first time, Serena opened up about her past with her boyfriend. He told her they would figure things out no matter what, and despite Planned Parenthood’s pressure to abort, the pair chose life that day. Serena and her boyfriend prospered, thanks to the support of pro-life members in their community who stepped in and taught them the life skills needed to prepare to parent and be successful. With support from the community, the couple finished high school, learned to pay their bills, and ultimately got married. They were even able to buy a house.

Yet the pain and suffering of Serena’s childhood abortion had not yet been fully realized.

Serena’s life was going well until she had a miscarriage, which evoked feelings of grief for both the newly lost child and the child she’d aborted so many years before. To make things worse, Serena later had an ovary rupture and almost bled to death. By the age of 29, various problems required her to have a complete hysterectomy.

Over the years, Serena connected the dots between comments from doctors and shared experiences with other women recovering from abortion, and she realized that the medical complications she endured were likely tied back to the violent abortion she was coerced into years before.

Yet even this wasn’t the end of her suffering. When George Klopfer died in 2019, the bodies of around 2,400 babies were found in his garage. This discovery was a “gut punch” to Serena, whose first thought was to wonder if one of those babies was her own.

This cumulative pain took a heavy toll on the Dyksens’ marriage. Serena felt unworthy of her husband and children, so she left home and turned to drugs and alcohol to forget. The weight of knowing she’d ended the life of an innocent child was crushing, and Serena hadn’t realized how difficult it had been to carry all those years.

Thankfully, Serena ultimately experienced the healing that she needed to return home and mend her marriage. She also answered the call to help other women recovering from abortion by founding the  “She Found His Grace” ministry.

Today she educates others on the dangers of Planned Parenthood’s coercive, profit-driven exploitation of women. “Planned Parenthood has one agenda, and one agenda only, and it’s to end the life of your child for profit,” she says. Conversely, the pro-life movement is always there to help.

She also works daily to help women who have experienced abortion and their partners heal and to have the courage to seek out the help that they need.

“If you’ve been part of an abortion and you regret it, there is healing…there is help for you.” Serena adds, “Don’t be afraid to reach out and say, ‘I’m hurting and I need help.”