We come to your church and have a wonderful testimony of God’s grace. We share that we have had an abortion and you think you know what we are talking about - something that we don’t need to upset ourselves over. You tell us that we’re forgiven and we must not revisit what has been dealt with.
You think we are talking about a medical procedure that was probably necessary because of the circumstances.
We are talking about the violent death that entered our body with our consent, that killed our little baby. We’re talking about the lies we believed that you didn’t challenge. We’re talking about the trauma that is still with us.
Then we see that display of the baby in the womb, a similar age to our baby. It destroys the lies. At last there is acknowledgement of the truth of our baby. At last it makes sense why we are walking around but feel dead inside.
We are bereaved mothers, bereaved by the society, by the church that cannot face the truth, and uses our feelings as the excuse for covering it up. You say that you are concerned for us, that we would get upset. Don’t you know that we are upset all the time but have to hide it, to pretend, to carry on as usual.
Perhaps it is yourself that you are protecting from upset?
Who will listen, will honestly allow us to grieve, to mourn and to be comforted? If not the Church then who? If Keswick avoids the truth, what good are you?
One thing we all agree on is that no-one warned us. No-one told us. And we all want other parents to avoid the anguish we have lived with.
Preach the warning - don’t use the word abortion - spell it out: It’s poisoning, it’s dismembering, it’s inducing a heart attack, a cruel death; the knives that come within the very part of the woman that is designed to nurture and protect her baby. It is a trauma that is impossible to recover from without Jesus.
If you have been harmed by abortion, there is hope and support available, please visit the PASE (Post Abortion Support for Everyone) website for information on our Recovery Course.
Isaiah 54:4 “Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood."