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Won by Love
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Do you suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:
- Persistent thoughts and memories of your abortion
- Depression
- Shame
- Inability to feel affection
- Sleep problems
- Being easily startled
- Loss of interest in things once enjoyed
- Irritability
- Flashbacks (smells, feelings, images, sounds)
- Feelings of guilt
- Difficulty concentrating
- Worrying about death of children
Kirsten Strawn
The Faith Coach
Empowering You To Experience God's Power, Peace And Presence
The words, "You’re pregnant,” stunned me. I thought, how could this happen to me? I was on the pill. Confused, I needed time to think. Actually, I needed to tell my boyfriend to see what he would say.
When I told Mark the news he was calm. He supported me in my choice, but warned that I would be unable to accomplish my education and career goals.
The more I contemplated the pregnancy and the possibility of marriage I determined I would sacrifice all my dreams. At twenty I never thought about having children. I suspected that eventually I might have them, but I could never face the shame of getting married because I had to. We had only been going out for two months. Unsure if I loved
A year and a half later I married the father of my aborted baby.
For years we never discussed the abortion. As each year passed I lived with shame. I avoided conversations that had to do with abortion. I never told my secret. I went into a depression that impacted my relationships with everyone.
Many women escape through drugs and alcohol, but I put all my time into work. I tried to gain my self-worth through my identity in my career. Later I neglected my children by keeping busy. My daughter at four years old said, "Mommy you love this house more than you love me." My feelings of guilt, shame and inadequacy as a mother kept me emotionally detached.
For years I justified my choice to abort my baby, because I thought I knew what was best for me. Abortion was never best for me, nor is it best for other women, and certainly it is not best for the baby. There are consequences we suffer. I thought since abortion was legal that abortion was right. I was dead wrong!
I never knew that all forty-six human chromosomes were present at the moment of conception, that my baby’s hair, eyes and skin color were already determined in her unique DNA. I never realize that twenty-two days after fertilization my baby’s heart was beating. At ten weeks old she was two and a half inches tall with brain waves, a unique set of fingerprints, all her body systems were formed, and she was sensitive to touch.
Planned Parenthood never told me the truth.
Most abortion clinics will not tell you the facts. Abortion clinics want to make money. The more abortions they perform the more money they make. It’s simple. They are in the business of making money by killing babies. The Bible says in Jeremiah 22:17, "But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion."
Since Roe v. Wade was passed to legalize abortion fifty million abortions have occurred in the God wants to heal us from our abortion. We must confess our sin and repent. Through a personal relationship with Jesus we look forward in hope to a brighter day. A day when we will be united with our precious child. The child we never had the opportunity to know.
Roe v. Wade was based on a lie.
An attorney used Norma McCorvey, a pregnant woman, to get abortion passed by testifying to the Supreme Court that Norma was gang raped. Norma was never raped! She became a Christian and she tells the truth in her book “Won by Love.”
If you had an abortion consider the following steps to heal:
Step out of the darkness of shame into the light. Experience fellowship with God and the people in your life, be healed, and be used to offer hope to others.
God's Word To Live By:
Proverbs 6:16-18
There are six things the LORD hates,
seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways.
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Psalm 51:14
Save me from blood guilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
