Posted on 12/16/2014 5:53:24 PM PST by Morgana
A clinic worker described one of the women who came to her clinic for an abortion:
“Another [woman coming in for an abortion] who identified herself as Christian, was very active in her church. Before the abortion she said, “I’m in church six days a week, yet here I am.” She said that her religion forbids abortion, but after a good conversation she said that maybe her church was “too comfortable” in its position against abortion. She thought maybe they needed to examine the aspects of the issue that they were comfortable with. Even though she was steeped in her religion and its teachings, she knew in her heart that she was making the right choice.”
Had this woman gone to a crisis pregnancy center, the counselor would have immediately seen that her ambivalence and religious beliefs were red a flag that indicated that she might have extreme emotional distress after her abortion. The counselor would be talking about support systems, about getting help from her church in handling the unplanned pregnancy. The counselor would be finding a way that both mother and baby could live.
This also goes to show that even Christian women active in their churches get abortions. Pro-lifers should not assume that just because a woman is Christian, she will never be an abortion patient. Christian women can panic and feel desperate, just like non-christian women.
Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 150
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I gave that thought too....maybe she was employed? Like the church Secretary? Church school? She seemed to spend a lot of time there so she must have been employed somehow.
“Christians do NOT support abortion but are inclined to have them in secrete only to avoid shunning for having an illegitimate child.”
DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
She may be the cleaning lady of a church building.
One might surmise that the path of following Christ did not lead through the abortion mill's door.
It would be interesting to hear the whole story, not just the part that makes abortion sound like a non-negotiable necessity. And I wonder what she did with the seventh day.
See my post 61
That is what I suspect.
And the pro-infanticide should not count on a made-up story to persuade others to join their position.
These phony stories always make me laugh, for the "progressives" and the perverts assume that everyone else is stupid.
I might be persuaded to listen if the narrative were not anonymous and third hand, or most likely apocryphal propaganda.
Many Catholic Churches offer Mass every day. Then, she could be doing activities in church that are not a service, like choir practice.
You know that for an absolute fact? No white woman who goes to Pentecostal or Salvation Army churches EVER has an abortion? Pretty omniscient.
God loves all babies, children and us, no matter what. The killings- I don’t understand. This fact of life, has denied any understanding, for my last 50 years.
Yes, it could be.
Very religious doesn’t make a Christian. See Pharisees
Yes A Christian member of a White Pentecostal Church or a Salvation Army member...absolutely I know
I disagree that a true Christian would have an abortion...yes a mainline Catholic or Mainline protestant, but not a saved Christian
I have to figure that like most women she was in a state of panic and did this. That makes her a Christian who has fallen from Grace until she asks for forgiveness.
We all sin. We all have to ask for forgiveness for things. I don’t know the whole story as to why she felt the need to do this but I sure hope she asked Jesus to forgive her.
“Not seeing a lot of Episcopalian churches open 6 days a week either.”
Hear! Hear! The ones in my community are!!! They run soup kitchens and clothing closets for the poor!
“Was this reported by Rolling Stone magazine?”
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Sarah Terzo who runs “Clinic Quotes” does an excellent job of naming her sources. If you notice every time I post one from “Clinic Quotes” I always post the source with it! This “quote” came from this source:
Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 150
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