As someone who has worked at Pregnancy Resource Clinic for a few months shy of 6 years, I wanted to share some thoughts and information in light of current events.
Medicial Pregnancy Resource Clinics like Birth Choice have ALWAYS sought to love and serve the woman AND encourage and empower her to choose life for her child. We are pro-woman. We do not receive governmental aid and seek to serve and love women at great cost, but free to her.
Countless girls have left Planned Parenthood and told our office, “they were not kind to me; they didn’t even care about me. You all are so kind to me.” (I know this is not every woman’s experience, but it’s so sad to hear so many women say how they were treated at PP.)
Abortion is NEVER in her best interest because it is murder. This is because abortion is the ending of her own child’s life. This sounds harsh but is true.
Overturning Roe will not mean prosecutition of the mother but those who perform abortions on mothers.
Surgeries for miscarriage, ectopic and tubal pregnancies are NOT abortions. They are not even close to the same thing. Those things are NOT the mother’s desire or choice. Abortion is the termination of a baby by CHOICE.
Even in situations of rape and incest, abortion is the ending of the innocent, making the traumatized mother bring more trauma upon herself by ending her child’s life rather than bringing the perpetrator to justice for the evil that he has committed.
Why is that we are tempted to think that this is a mutually exclusive problem, that it’s the woman or the baby? Why do we not realize that it is both? A woman is a mother at the moment of the baby’s conception. It is against her very God-given nature to end the life of her child. But on the altar of connivence we sacrifice our children. Lord have mercy upon us.
It reminds me of this song by Sarah Sparks.
Here is the thing. Yes, we are anti-abortion. But, we are PRO-LIFE. ANY and EVERY woman is welcome to us after she has had an abortion. We will never encourage her to have an abortion. But, we want to get her back in our door to love her and if she is willing, to see if she (or anyone complicit in the partaking of an abortion) will go through our New Beginnings program for anyone who is post-abortive. This is not only for women, but for fathers, grandparents, siblings, friends, church members, whoever pressured, paid, or was affected by a woman in their life who has had an abortion.
We do not cast women out after they have made a decision to abort, even though we have pleaded with them not to. We plead with them to come back in. We plead with them to see the truth and to find healing in the truth.
We forget that our hearts are selfish and that we do not know best.
“…when you understand what Scripture says your heart is capable of—evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander—you’ll also understand why it’s not smart to follow it down the path of destruction.”*
It is scripture that helps us know what is true and good and what is not. We need the Lord. Because when we repent and believe in our hearts, confessing with our mouth that we have sinned and Jesus is Lord and saves us, then we are saved. I am in no less need than a post-abortive woman, or pro-choice person. We all need the salvation of Jesus Christ. It is the truth that will set us free. This is why we fight abortion, love the woman, and welcome her back whatever she has done. For free. Because the truth is costly, and man, sometimes it is hard to stand on and hard to accept, but it is always loving and best. So it is love that motivates and compels us to not be silent.
This podcast by the president of the seminary I attend summarizes so much so well from Friday, 6/24/22: Special Episode of the Briefing: This is the Day that the Lord has Made!
This article is pretty powerful to read also: Because They Are No More
*Excerpt from: "Growing in Godliness: A Teen Girl's Guide to Maturing in Christ" by Lindsey Carlson. Scribd.
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