“I try very hard not to condemn women who have had abortions because God is their judge, but it does seem she is feeling a lot of guilt deep down; hence the need for public confession and telling her son.”
Over these years of posting pro life stuff I’ve tried very very hard not to condemn women who had abortion. I know how they’ve been lied to by the abortion industry.
This case however, and FReepers please help even me here, any woman who calls herself a pastor should have known better. Unless she grew up in a piss poor church, went to a piss poor seminary or got her “reverend” title from a Cracker Jack Box she knew what the Bible said on murder and how God felt about life in the uterus.
She had to have known better.
Luckily I had some Catholic literature, knew I had to let my daughter make up her own mind (I did explain my position and why) decided not to get one (reinforced by the boy's Catholic parents).
My spiritual journey has been very tortuous and still is. It's lucky her dad didn't try to bribe her into getting one. He had his daughter by his second wife get one or two.
The church I grew up in I did learn just a little of the bible but wasn't sure what fornication even meant. The big "sins" were smoking and drinking. I've been a little angry about it, but shouldn't deprecate the church which has a lot of nice people and does good works. But my conscience told me I had to leave, and I did.