It’s not the unforgivable sin. And there is healing of spirit and soul.
That’s the message of Silent No More–a global ministry of women and men–parents and extended family–speaking up about the experience of having aborted their children–in order to discourage others from taking the same path.
Today, there is early chemical abortion (which can be reversed mid-process), surgical dismemberment of the unborn, late-term abortion, the euphemistic “reduction”–which is the selective killing of a twin, triplet, etc.
The reasons are plentiful ranging from inconvenience to financial distress to rape to fetal abnormality.
The regrets, however, are the same: I’m sorry I killed my child.
Healing comes, as it does with any sin or source of shame, with speaking up. Saying it out loud as one mother notes: Continue reading “Silent No More–Healing after Abortion”