Posted on 07/25/2008 7:22:58 AM PDT by rhema
Washington, DC -- There is no woman in the world who grows up thinking she will have an abortion one day. Whatever the reason for the abortion -- feeling they have no other option or pressure from a partner or others -- many women feel significant guilt and shame.
Sheila Harper learned the hard way when she chose abortion as a teenager, carrying around debilitating emotions that led to drugs, alcohol and even a suicide attempt.
For seven years, author Harper carried with her the shame and humiliation of her abortion.
Eventually she found deliverance through God’s abundant grace and learned that she could forgive herself and those involved with making that decision.
With her new book, "SaveOne: A Guide to Emotional Healing after Abortion," Harper helps women pinpoint those debilitating emotions and guide them towards forgiveness and renewal.
However women arrived at an abortion decision, "the feelings of shame, sadness and regret are often carried inside them for years," Harper says.
"Many women are unable to ever forgive themselves, thinking they will carry this very private and personal grief inside them forever," she said.
With SaveOne, Harper presents a step by step, chapter by chapter guide that shows you how to rely on your Creator for the courage to deal with the past.
She hopes to answer the kinds of questions post-abortive women ask, like: Is there life after an abortion, Why am I an emotional wreck, Can I really overcome my guilt and be set free, and Does God really care about me?
Harper says she will help women learn to reclaim their lives and the lives of their unborn children and become the wife, mother, and friend they were meant to be without the emotional baggage.
Harper has been working with pro-life issues since 1992, focusing on the abortion recovery realm. She founded SaveOne, an outreach ministry, in 1999, and has served as President since that time.
Related web sites: SaveOne
good. years ago i listened to an ob-gyn describe how detrimental abortions are to the health and mental welfare of the mothers. she told how when the doors of the abortion clinic close at 5pm, their mistakes are treated in an emergency room and are never get linked back to the originating facility. she has seen serious injury and death from abortions. she said her patients often grieve for decades about their “choices”.
Our laws are not “pro choice”. Our laws are pro abortion. We should never stop pointing that out.
Two ways to go, and I’ve seen both, following killing your unborn child.
1) Repent and reconcile with God, recognize the wrong that you did and ask for healing.
2) Spend the rest of your life justifying it by being a “pro-choice” activist and/or even going so far as to get an OBGYN degree to perform abortions yourself.
This may not be “speaking the truth in love”, but I never let the word “choice” go by in a discussion of the issue.
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Choice? What, are you choosing your flavor of icecream at Baskin Robbins?
NO, you’re choosing to end a human life; to kill a baby.
Admit that, and we’ll go on with the discussion.
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Way back when it told a few truths, Planned Parenthood used to warn about "choice," too:
Plan Your Children (Planned Parenthood, 1963) states: “An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun.” The pamphlet also informs the reader that “[abortion] is dangerous to your life and health. it may make you sterile, so that when you want a child you cannot have it ... [in comparison] [b]irth control merely postpones the beginning of life.”
I am certain along with making it mandatory before an abortion is allowed that women have and see a scan of the child they are carrying if men in particular were aware that it might make the women sterile there would be many fewer abortions.
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