> Completely untrue.
I am sorry if it offends you or if this sounds heartless: I try to be a compassionate person insofar as I can be, and I try to put that compassion into practise wherever I can.
On the subject of Abortion I see the issue as black-and-white, with a clear Right and a clear Wrong. There is no grey area. At all.
I believe that almost without exception any woman who feels “wounded” after aborting her baby is actually suffering from a self-inflicted injury obtained while participating in an act of pre-meditated violence that led to the death of an innocent human life.
Put in that context I don’t feel much compassion or sympathy, and I don’t feel one bit sorry for not feeling sorry.
Yes, her injury should be treated and she should be helped and her pain eased: to do less than that would be inhumane.
All of my sympathy rests with the dead baby.
> Does New Zealand not have some equivalent of the Silent No More group of women who have acknowledged the pain and guilt they feel after having abortions?
When you say “acknowledged” surely you mean “confessed and repented”, which is what we ought to do when we realize the enormity of our Sins.
“Acknowledging” just doesn’t cut it: “acknowledging” is something you do when you correct a spelling error. Taking an innocent and defenseless human life is an error of somewhat greater magnitude, I would have thought.
I do not know if there is such a group in New Zealand: very probably there is.
So you do acknowledge that women who abort are also harmed. You just believe we have it coming.
Yeah, that's real compassionate.
Repentance is generally not instantaneous. In some cases, public acknowledgment of sins (which naturally implies confession) is the first step toward repentance.