Post-Abortion Review
Letters to the Editor
Breaking Down Walls
Keep up the good work! The last few issues of your newsletter have been great. One of these days we’ll break through the wall of denial surrounding those who think that making abortion legal made it safe and healthy for women.
Anne Burns
Reframing the Issue
Your recent letter was most encouraging. George Bush needs help reframing the abortion issue so the public learns that his is the compassionate approach. Keep up the excellent work. We really do appreciate your efforts.
Patty Stark
The Toll of Abortion
I still have difficulty with comprehending the fact that as many as 40 percent of childbearing women have had abortions. Whenever I stood in a checkout line, it seemed so overwhelming that one-third of the women in line had aborted and two-thirds had involvement with other’s abortions. But last summer, abortion entered my husband’s family.
A relative tearfully confided in me how she had been unable to prevent her young niece from being aborted. The teen had been psychologically troubled with anger and issues about her own adoption. After being kicked out of a private Christian high school because of her pregnancy, she was badgered and bribed to abort by her psychiatrist and her up-til-then pro-life parents.
Those three sectors (Christian parents, school and shrink) which should have been most solicitous were the most predatory. Their collusion in this heinous, immoral (dare I say “hate”) crime will remain unacknowledged and unpunished by the law. I’ve read enough of the literature to know that she is in the most vulnerable category of all abortion victims, with more tragedy lurking around the corner.
Name Withheld
Finding Hope and Healing
I am very blessed by your paper, Hope and Healing. I had an abortion in 1978. I just had a hysterectomy in January of this year so I have been seeing my doctor more than the normal once a year. I have a very godly doctor; we talk about the Lord when I’m in his office.
I feel God has brought me through a long healing process. God is so faithful and loving. I’ve been a Christian for only six years; I don’t know how I made it through all those years with such pain. I still have some tough moments but God always pulls me through. I praise God for using me with other people and giving my testimony at churches. If it reaches one person, it’s all worth it!
Name Withheld
Originally printed in The Post-Abortion Review, Vol. 8(4), Oct.-Dec. 2000.
