A New York woman filed a lawsuit last month alleging that she aborted her nearly 20-week-old unborn child after paternity results incorrectly claimed the child was not her fiance’s.

This tragic story reveals much about women and the current state of abortion in America. It’s also not an isolated incident.

The tragedy began when a young woman from Yonkers, New York, and her then-fiancé broke up because of their inability to conceive. While the couple was broken up, the young woman hooked up with another man. When the young woman and her ex-fiancé ultimately got back together, they finally were able to conceive. Yet presumably because of their past infertility struggles, and the recent hook-up, the young woman privately sought a paternity test.

The results revealed that her one-time hook-up was the father. Heartbreak ensued.

The young woman’s fiancé was devastated and allegedly wept from the disappointment and deception. The young woman sought an abortion that she realized midway through she didn’t want — but by that point, it was too late.

In one fell swoop, she’d lost her child and her fiancé.

Months later, she learned that the results were wrong, and her ex-fiancé was the father to the 20-week-old child she’d aborted.

In an interview with the New York Post, the young woman tearfully shared about the suffering she experienced due to the mix-up — and how she wishes she could reverse it: “My daughter would have been born on the 17th [of April],” she said. “I just have a lot of emotions. These results were the reason why I decided to do what I did.”

Pro-life advocates were quick to highlight that the woman’s emotions and the reporting on her case seem to ignore the real tragedy: the painful death of her pain-capable unborn child. (Unborn babies can feel pain by 15 weeks.)

“Maybe the life or death of a human being shouldn’t hinge on a paternity test,” wrote Katie Glenn Daniel, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America director of legal affairs and policy counsel.

The young woman is currently suing Winn Health Labs in the Bronx and Ohio’s DNA Diagnostics Center, where she received the faulty paternity test. She blames the lab for destroying her family.

“You took away the family I could have had,” she told NBC New York. “This was the person I was marrying. This is the person I wanted to build a family with.”

Reactions on social media were not extremely forgiving toward the Yonkers mother, however. Even some self-proclaimed pro-abortion advocates criticized her decision.

“I really do empathize with most abortions stories but this is just yeesh,” one Reddit user commented. “I can’t get my head [around] the mental gymnastics here.”

“I am pro-choice but I don’t have much sympathy for a woman who cheated on her fiance & had an abortion due to it…” another user commented. “Regardless of anyone’s feelings, the lab did make an error and she should be compensated accordingly.”

The majority of reactions on X (formerly Twitter) were extremely unforgiving. Many highlighted how her story — and the rapidity with which she procured a late-term abortion merely because of the baby’s father — seemed to be a cautionary tale on the inherent issues with abortion in general.

Stories such as this Yonkers tragedy are not uncommon. The availability of abortion and pro-abortion messaging have successfully made many people view abortion as a quick “fix” for problems, only to learn afterward that it is not the easy solution it’s made out to be.

Sex-selective abortions and abortions for babies with Down syndrome or other “unfavorable” prenatal diagnoses have become more common in recent years. Just this February, for example, BBC News reported on two separate couples that aborted healthy children due to faulty prenatal diagnoses claiming their children had serious genetic conditions.

Many pro-life advocates would likely argue that the pro-life approach — which pro-abortion advocates paint as “oppressive” — often provides more hope and healing to couples or individuals in difficult situations. For example, the pro-life movement has repeatedly highlighted the hopeful stories of women who chose life despite difficult circumstances: some were prostitutes who chose life; others defied pressure from family and boyfriends to abort; others ignored unfavorable prenatal diagnoses and are overjoyed to be sharing life with children society might deem “unworthy.”

Far from destroying their lives, many of these women report that choosing life was one of the best things that ever happened to them.

“It changed my life,” young mother Shawnte Mallory said about choosing life, thanks to her experience and the resources she received from a pro-life maternity home. “I didn’t have to give up or get rid of a child that I knew I wanted just because things got hard.”

“My son is 6 years old and he’s my only one,” testified Maddie Martinez, another mother who chose life despite difficult circumstances that made her consider abortion. “It’s just me and him .… He’s literally the love of my life. He really is. I thought he would ruin my life and he’s done so much to just enrich it, to just make it this beautiful life.”

Beverly Jacobson, a mother who chose life despite being told her unborn daughter had Trisomy 18 and could be “incompatible with life,” similarly expressed immense gratitude for her decision to parent. “I don’t know how long Verity will live. But I do know she is not in pain. She is not suffering. She is a joyful and happy child. She is not a ‘drain’ on our family. She is our most precious blessing!”