Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

This past week an amicus Brief was filed in the case of Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, a challenge to Texas regulations that could result in 75% of the state's abortion clinics being forced to close. One hundred and seven women lawyers and 6 current law students ,are seeking to show how important abortion rights are to the legal profession.

Here is an excerpt from the brief:
“Amici obtained their abortions at different ages and life stages, under a variety of circumstances, and for a range of reasons both medical and personal, but they are united in their strongly-held belief that they would not have been able to achieve the personal or professional successes they have achieved were it not for their ability to obtain safe and legal abortions.”
(The full text of the brief is here: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2673822/Paul-Weiss-Amicus.pdf)

Yesterday, I read a article of excerpts from a Glamour Magazine interview with Jennifer Lawrence. In it, she credits Planned Parenthood for her success as a woman, because, “I wouldn’t have been able to get condoms and birth control and all these things I needed as a normal teenager who was growing up in a Jesus house.”

We have come a long way from supposed necessity, safe and rare abortion. Not only has it become a right, it has become a positive force as more and more women are crediting their ‘success’ in life to the ability to kill their unborn children.
You have to wonder how such a disconnect happens and how we have gotten where we are.

As I watched President Obama this past week, speak with tears in his eyes about gun control and the loss of the life of children, I could not help but reflect on the fact that his support and promotion for abortion has killed more children than any gun has. It is heart wrenching.

I always try to remind myself “there but for the grace of God go I.” Jennifer Lawrence is young and probably pretty ignorant to the harm Planned Parenthood does to countless women. As for Obama, I often wonder if there are abortions in his past he needs to continue to justify. It must be easy to fool yourself when you have accomplished becoming president. I bet almost anything you have done that has gotten you there can easily be rationalized. Awe, the blindness of sin.He can see so easily the children of Sandy Hook(and we should). but is blind to the close to 60 million children our country has allowed to die through abortion.

As for those women lawyers, I feel sorry for them. They are measuring their personal and profession success on the fact that they killed their own children. Just thinking about that makes me shudder. You have to wonder what they will have to face when that reality hits them and you have to wonder why in their minds it is an “either ,or”. There are certainly women who are both moms and lawyers.

Our country, and our world needs many prayers, not the least of which I myself need. It is hard to be the face of mercy in the wake of so much death and destruction, but that is exactly what God calls us to be. Alienating these people, judging them instead of the act, is counter productive, and only brings more division. While we are called to always speak the truth of abortion, we are also called to always speak the truth of the love and mercy of God. This of course, does not mean that there are not consequences of sin, there are always consequences, but it does mean we need even more be the face of Christ in this troubled world, respecting the dignity of life, even the lives of Jennifer Lawrence, the lawyers in the brief and President Obama, as God would desire us to do.