What the Pro-Aborts Won't Tell You, Abortion = Regret
David Bereit
National Campaign Director
It is not unusual for people standing vigil outside an abortion facility during 40 Days for Life to be the target of “drive-by anger.” You may think the people who offer you an unkind word or gesture simply don’t care for you or what you’re doing.
But often, there’s much more to it.
“We have had the expected negative response from passersby,” said Kelly in Severna Park, Maryland, “but I just like to call this response ‘ripping off the band aid.’ People are angry because they are trying not to think about the pain they are in. By us being there, we are ripping their band aids off and so they project their anger at us.”
Who’s doing this? People who had unresolved abortion experiences — sometimes decades ago — that may have left them with feelings of guilt and anger. So they lash out.
“I know that this may in fact be their first steps to healing and so I don’t mind,” Kelly said. “I’ve noticed that when I hold my sign with the personal statement, ‘I regret my abortion,’ people get really upset. So upset they feel the need to call me mean names and yell to me that they don’t regret their abortions, but their anger tells me otherwise.”
Through 40 Days for Life, however, many of these people are taking that first step towards healing.
“A woman heard an interview I had done at a local radio station about our 40 Days for Life campaign,” said Alejandra in Orange County, California. “A couple of hours later she called me, saying that she wanted to be part of this campaign and that this was what she needed.”
The woman told Alejandra that 17 years ago, she had two abortions. Ever since then, every time she sees a 17-year-old she wonders about her children. “It is a scar she has in her heart and that she hasn’t healed. She is now ready to go to an abortion recovery group and has begun to find healing.”
With 50 million abortions over the past 35 years, there is an unfathomable number of people who need healing — including people who didn’t have abortions themselves, but somehow participated in one.
Marti in Little Rock, Arkansas said one of the local 40 Days for Life volunteers confided in her that shortly after Roe v. Wade, she took a friend for an abortion. “She has struggled with guilt for all of these years,” Marti said. “She feels 40 Days for Life has given her a way to begin to make amends for assisting in an abortion.”
This woman became excited about 40 Days for Life — and much more. “She told me she went to church this weekend for the first time in nine years,” said Marti. “She will be at the vigil for the first time tomorrow. 40 Days for Life has given her renewed passion for life, both hers and all of the yet-to-be born babies.”
Thank you for all you’re doing to bring the healing hand of Christ to those who’ve held so much guilt inside for so many years.
For more information about post-abortion healing, please see the online resources of Abortion Recovery International at:
http://www.abortionrecovery.org
But often, there’s much more to it.
“We have had the expected negative response from passersby,” said Kelly in Severna Park, Maryland, “but I just like to call this response ‘ripping off the band aid.’ People are angry because they are trying not to think about the pain they are in. By us being there, we are ripping their band aids off and so they project their anger at us.”
Who’s doing this? People who had unresolved abortion experiences — sometimes decades ago — that may have left them with feelings of guilt and anger. So they lash out.
“I know that this may in fact be their first steps to healing and so I don’t mind,” Kelly said. “I’ve noticed that when I hold my sign with the personal statement, ‘I regret my abortion,’ people get really upset. So upset they feel the need to call me mean names and yell to me that they don’t regret their abortions, but their anger tells me otherwise.”
Through 40 Days for Life, however, many of these people are taking that first step towards healing.
“A woman heard an interview I had done at a local radio station about our 40 Days for Life campaign,” said Alejandra in Orange County, California. “A couple of hours later she called me, saying that she wanted to be part of this campaign and that this was what she needed.”
The woman told Alejandra that 17 years ago, she had two abortions. Ever since then, every time she sees a 17-year-old she wonders about her children. “It is a scar she has in her heart and that she hasn’t healed. She is now ready to go to an abortion recovery group and has begun to find healing.”
With 50 million abortions over the past 35 years, there is an unfathomable number of people who need healing — including people who didn’t have abortions themselves, but somehow participated in one.
Marti in Little Rock, Arkansas said one of the local 40 Days for Life volunteers confided in her that shortly after Roe v. Wade, she took a friend for an abortion. “She has struggled with guilt for all of these years,” Marti said. “She feels 40 Days for Life has given her a way to begin to make amends for assisting in an abortion.”
This woman became excited about 40 Days for Life — and much more. “She told me she went to church this weekend for the first time in nine years,” said Marti. “She will be at the vigil for the first time tomorrow. 40 Days for Life has given her renewed passion for life, both hers and all of the yet-to-be born babies.”
Thank you for all you’re doing to bring the healing hand of Christ to those who’ve held so much guilt inside for so many years.
For more information about post-abortion healing, please see the online resources of Abortion Recovery International at:
http://www.abortionrecovery.org
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In addition to the group recommended above, there are many other groups who offer the needed emotional & spiritual healing from the damage caused by abortion. I have a list in the right hand column under Post-Abortion Healing.
Abortion hurts all who are involved. It kills the child. It causes emotional & spiritual damage to the mother & father of the child as well as other family members. This damage is a bondage that Jesus, in His great Love & Mercy wants to break. If you have been involved in an abortion & are still hurting, please, I beg you, get the help that Jesus is offering through these groups. You can be forgiven. You can be healed. You can be set free.
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