Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

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By Theresa Bonopartis | October 5, 2019 , 08:40am

“I have not come that I may call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
(Luke 5:32)
Recently I saw a Facebook post where someone was speaking of pro-lifers calling a woman at a clinic a Jezebel and murderer. He was commenting on how, in all his years of pro-life work, he had never heard any language like that. While I may not have heard the actual word “Jezebel,” there certainly is more than enough condemnation to be found for those who have had abortions — by many in the pro-life movement.
We are only three days into October, Respect Life Month, and already I have been inundated with despairing hearts because they believe what they have been told by many in the pro-life movement is true: that their sin is unforgivable and they are doomed to hell.
With the thought of full disclosure, let me say right off the bat that I have had an abortion. I also co-developed a healing ministry named Entering Canaan, and I am the Director of Lumina, Hope & Healing after Abortion, a program of Good Counsel Homes which assists pregnant homeless women.
READ: Post-abortive mom: Abortion regret ‘weighs down every fiber of your being’
I have been very blessed and grateful to come to know the love and mercy of God, and truly, because of that, it does not matter what people say. I know what He has done for me and no one can take that away. However, for those who are not in that place yet, hearing cruel comments can be enough to send them in to despair, or even make them suicidal.

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