Since Roe vs Wade in 1973, the current total of abortions is well beyond fifty million.
I have only had one experience regarding abortion and it came to me from out of the blue. A young lady whom I knew, but not well, came to me while I was working as a transcriptionist at a hospital. She was fighting back tears, and to this day, I never understood why she came to me. I couldn’t talk at the time, but told her I would meet her at my house after work and we would visit.
She told me the story of what happened. She was very much in love with a man who worked as a lab technician at the same hospital where I worked. But he only used her. Nevertheless, she became pregnant, and scared, for she knew her parents would not approve. So privately, she set up an appointment in Dallas and went by herself to have the abortion, but then remorse set in immediately. She was devastated she made the decision. I held her as she cried. I prepared a meal and we talked for two or three hours. She was penitent of her decision and follow through. But no matter how compassionate and understanding I was, compassion could not erase the taking of an innocent child. A moment of weakness brought on the pregnancy, plus much guilt and sorrow.
What do you tell one whose heart is broken, not only from being used by the young man, but being abandoned by him as well? She felt very alone. When she told the young man she was pregnant, he refused to honor the child and told her to get an abortion for he didn’t love her. She was a lovely and loving young woman. My heart grieved not only for a life which was taken, but for what she would live with for the rest of her life. I tried to console her broken spirit as best I could.
I lost contact with her, but remember her parting words to me that day. She told me she would never know what the baby boy would have grown to be. I said “I know, and I was so sorry this happened to her and the baby boy she would never know.”
She was not a Christian, but I tell this story because many out there have had abortions and live with regret, remorse, and untold sadness with the knowledge of a decision which was made in a moment because they were scared. You feel overwhelmed just thinking about it and feel you have nowhere to turn. You do have One to turn to. Satan wants us to believe there is nowhere to turn, but our Father in heaven is waiting on us, waiting with open arms to come to Him, follow His Word, be forgiven and become a faithful child of His.
“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.” Psalms 51:17
“And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.” Acts 22:16
“I even I, Am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Isaiah 43:25
For those who are Christians, God will forgive any sin if they humble ourselves and are penitent. The only sin He will not forgive is any unrepented of sin. But He loves you, and knows your heart, and when repentance is made, forgiveness is given. That is the end of the matter with Him. Angels rejoice at one who has returned to the fold. And others will rejoice as well at one’s return.
“Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.” Luke 15:10
It is true we have to live with the consequences of our sins, but they are no less forgiven. When King David committed sin with Bathsheba, and tried to hide his sin, he ultimately had Uriah murdered, but he was forced to face his sin. Though he had to deal with the consequences, he was forgiven of God. God called him a man after His own heart for David was penitent of heart. That’s quite a statement by our Father in heaven, and that’s exactly how He feels about us.
“And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after Mine own heart, which shall fulfil all My will.” Acts 13:22
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” II Peter 3:9
Sometimes in our hearts we think we have sinned so badly we can never be forgiven; a Christian can be forgiven and restored. That is what Jesus came and died on the cross for. Our sins. That is how much He loves us. It is not His desire that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
The abortionists make it sound so easy. In and out the same day, but what they don’t tell you is the devastating consequences of the emotions once the pregnancy has been terminated. The effects of the abortion will never go away. I wonder many times given the number of abortions, how many women are emotional wrecks for their decision to end a life, and what might have been. The consequences, heartache, sorrow and in some cases, a woman will live with the secret all of her life, shackled to a sin she desires to be forgiven. And she can be.
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” I John 1:9
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalms 46:1
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14
“The very ones who were responsible for the death of Jesus were among the first to have opportunity to obtain His forgiveness. Since that time the Gospel is come into all the world to be preached to every creature. Every man, no matter what his offense, can be pardoned of his sins if he will meet God’s conditions in obeying the Gospel. While time yet continues and mercy yet lingers, obey the Gospel of Christ to obtain God’s mercy.” ~ Jerry Bassett
Eileen Light