This
weekend I was blessed with the opportunity to facilitate a Rachel’s Hope
healing retreat for post-abortive women.
For
two and a half days, I witnessed the excruciating emotional suffering abortion
inflicts on vulnerable and frightened women.
Thanks to Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities, these women had the
procedure not knowing or being advised of the devastating psychological,
spiritual and physical trauma waiting for them years afterwards. Trauma
waiting to attack every aspect of their lives … their self-esteem, self-worth,
relationships, faith, employment, parenting, etc.
The
process of healing is emotional and painful but the result is worth
it, but as these courageous and injured women started the process, they could
not yet feel the love, forgiveness and hope to come from God’s infinite
mercy. While listening
to their stories and watching the tears flow down their cheeks, my mind
wandered back to the time I too fell victim to the misleading rhetoric. My heart threatened to break into tiny little pieces but, praise God, through the healing I received, I had
the tools to avert a complete melt-down.
As
I reflected on the past few days, my commitment to pro-life and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign grew tenfold. (It was already at 100% so watch
out!) Planned Parenthood and their
counterparts should be more than willing to advise their clients of the
potential side effects of abortion. They
claim to be the major defender and caring
(?) provider of women’s healthcare, after all.
But then, if the truth were known, women
would think twice about abortion and clinics would no longer rake in the
millions of dollars, forcing them to close their doors (what a wonderful thought)
thus saving the lives of our precious unborn and the hearts and souls of the
mothers and others involved in the abortion decision.
Abortion providers not only profit from the
death of an innocent life, but they also take
advantage of the frightened, the poor, the coerced, the vulnerable and the
misinformed. They must be stopped.
“America, your very
future as a nation depends on your
willingness to protect the Right to Life of the
most of the most defenseless in
your society.”
–Pope John Paul II