Colorado Springs Facebook community reaches out to abortion survivor in need
Carrie Yvette Fischer just moved to Colorado. She wants to work, but her mother’s attempted abortion left her with facial deformities that she says make it difficult to land a job. So she reached out on Facebook to find some help and found hundreds of connections.
“When I go out or when I go meet somebody I always feel like I have to warn them. I don’t want to scare you when you meet me,” Fischer said.
Fischer and her husband Richard just moved to Colorado Springs from Houston. They’re living at a hotel for now.
“I want a house. I want a job,” she said.
She has a 2-year degree and work experience, so she felt that in theory finding a job should be no problem. She found a Facebook group called “The 411 For The 719” to look for possible employment opportunities.
“I’m a 50-year-old disabled woman who wants to work but has a hard time getting hired because of how I look,” reads Fischer’s Facebook post. “Please no laughing Emojis. I didn’t ask to be born this way. You don’t know my story.”
As it turns out, Fischer’s story is a tale of survival.
“50 years ago my mother aborted me. She thought it worked. A few months later found out she’s still pregnant,” she said.
Carrie survived but suffered facial paralysis and she’s deaf in one ear. She has endured bullying and ridicule and never thought she’d get married.
I had never been asked out on a date before age 42,” she said.
Then she met Richard. They married 3-months later and now they face the world together.
“She handles it very well,” he said, “It’s a testament to her faith and her character.”
The exact number of abortion survivors is not known but she says there are hundreds of others.
At last check Carrie’s Facebook post has hundreds of likes and comments and job suggestions. Even posts that offer no help but say, “You are beautiful.”
Fischer says, even with their complicated history, she has a good relationship with her biological mother and considers her one of her best friends.
