I know what you are saying. I can tell you this particular priest, since I have narrowed it down to one person, is very good to her and has been a great comfort to her and he has told her she has been forgiven as all sinners are when they repent. I understand your point about if she still believes in abortion. She herself would never have another one she says. And wishes she never had. But she would not make the choice for anyone else. It has taken her years to come to a peaceful place..or anywhere near a peaceful place and enable her to live with this. I have known her for almost 30 years and I can tell you this weighed heavy on her heart for those years.
I can tell you this particular priest, since I have narrowed it down to one person, is very good to her and has been a great comfort to her and he has told her she has been forgiven as all sinners are when they repent.
In my church's RE program for middle-schoolers, we devote the two weeks before Thanksgiving with a Reconciliation Prep class, followed by a Reconciliation service. The priest asked the kids, "what is the one sin that can never be forgiven?" His answer? "The one that is never confessed."
This country is too divided when it comes to the abortion issue. I just don't see where Roe v. Wade will ever be overturned. Accordingly, the battle lines are drawn on federal funding.
I have compassion for women who have had an abortion and have come to terms with the fact that they must live with the regret of that decision.
Yes, the whole meaning of salvation is that the good God extends his mercy and forgiveness-—”Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them as white as snow”, Sacred Scripture tells us. But that means that repentance and forgiveness also calls for a turning away from sin, and the resolve to sin no more (as Jesus told the Samaritan woman).
As for not “making the choice for someone else”, abortion leaves deep scars and a pervasive depression. According to the famous, late-great psychiatrist, Dr. Conrad Baars, “Abortion is a form of psychic self-destruction and if practiced on a large scale will have the gravest consequences for any society which condones it...and will provoke (in the woman) a depression which in my experience is malignant and incurable.”
Wouldn’t it be morally correct to do what one can to prevent this from happening to someone else?
A live baby is a live baby, and a dead one is a very dead one.
It becomes a moral responsibility to do what you can to save a life, just as surely as if you pulled someone out of a burning car or a brother soldier out of the line of fire on the battlefield.
Scripture tells us that we are to “Choose life”.
It’s a noble and holy choice.