In GB, this young woman was an adult at 16-she didn’t need anyone’s permission to do anything-but if I’d been the mom, I doubt I’d have ever been able to speak to my kid again-I’d have disowned her. As a Christian, I’ve been taught to forgive, but to me, there are some things that cannot be forgiven-murder is one of them.
Sometimes, as adults, kids are influenced by others to turn their backs on their Christian upbringing, no matter how diligent their parents are.
What I don’t understand is why the mother went with daughter to destroy her grandchild. She didn’t have to except out of some warped sense of giving her daughter “support”? What if she had said, “No, I can’t accompany you because this is wrong.” That might have dissuaded her daughter from having an abortion.
This mother recognized that her daughter was suicidal, would kill herself to kill the baby if necessary. I don’t know what else the mother could have done, aside from a lot of prayer. It does sound as if the daughter was spoiled and wasn’t raised to value human life so those are things that could have been done before the crisis point, but once the mom was in that situation I’m not sure what better options she had.
God does forgive murder. David - a “man after God’s own heart” and the earthly ancestor of Christ - murdered the husband of Bathsheba so he could marry her and cover up that their child was the result of adultery. And Jesus says that hating another person is murder, so if murder can’t be forgiven then we are all eternally condemned.
Abortion is terrible. It IS murder, and it stinks just as bad as lovelessness in any of its various forms. I hope that both mother and daughter realize the web of sin they’ve been caught in, and realize that people who are caught in sin - even the sin of murder - are the very reason that Jesus came and died, and His shed blood is enough to pay the just punishment for their sin. He loves them, He forgives them, and He restores them to a new life of innocence and love.