I Aborted the Only Baby I Would Ever Have

The so-called pro-choice worker pushed me away from the car and from the woman who was reaching out to take my literature. The pro-choice worker demanded the woman drive on and not speak to us. Fortunately, the woman was determined enough to see ALL her choices, and reached again for my literature, which I handed her.

Despite the pro-choice people‘s best efforts, two people did choose life for their babies and left that terrible place with the babies still in their wombs. My prayer, of course, is there were others we don’t know about who chose life.

While I was standing on the sidewalk, preparing to leave, a woman stopped her car in the middle of the street. I walked up to her. She looked a little old for someone contemplating an abortion. 

“Are you lost?” I asked her.

“No,“ she said, “I had an abortion about 15 years ago right here. It was the only baby I would ever have.”

“I am very sorry. You look sad,“ I said, “Do you regret that abortion?”

The woman’s eyes glistened with tears. “Yes. I cannot forgive myself.”

I asked her if she knew God, and I shared the gospel with her. She said she did know God and she understood that Jesus had died to pay the penalty for the sins she had committed.

“If Jesus died that horrific death to forgive you, do you think you should not forgive yourself?” I asked.

She looked down, shaking her head.

“I understand your pain,” I said. “I have found that the best thing to do with our pain is to help others. You have a testimony that can help other young women considering abortion. God can use you in your community. He has an uncanny ability to use our sinful past and transform our lives to be used for good.”

I shared some abortion-healing resources and classes, and gave her my name and number to call at anytime. Then I prayed with her. She thanked me and drove away. I praise God that His spirit moves people to seek out the help they need to heal and to help them leave lives of sin. But I grieve for that woman, and for the pro-choice workers who have no idea of the devastation left in the wake of abortion which they so angrily defend.

Fortunately, right afterwards, I had the joy of visiting a mom Cities4Life and LoveLife Charlotte and Truth and Mercy Prolife Ministries has helped tremendously. I have a dear friend, Brian, who refurbished my old laptop so I could give it to this wonderful new mom. She left her devastating struggles and past through our help and God’s strength and is in a completely redeemed life now. She wanted the computer so she could write her life’s story and maybe help other women inclined to give up.

As she held the precious baby she had once considered aborting, she thanked me for the computer and showed me the tree and gifts with which LoveLife Charlotte had filled her living room.    

“This is a whole new life for you now, isn’t it?” I said.

“You got that right, Miss Vicky.”

    

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Ephesians 4:22-24 

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.