Women don’t want to get abortions.
Eileen Fahlgren, Executive Director shares her thoughts about the after-effects of abortion.
Women don’t want to get abortions. They want the solution that abortion brings. We are just now seeing the fallout from the legalization of abortion in 1973 with the landmark Roe vs Wade court case. Many women have kept silent for years and some will keep silent forever. I was one of those women, keeping my silence for over 30 years. How could I talk about it? What was I going to do with the fact that my decision to abort my child had stopped a beating heart?
This was truly a dilemma in my soul. When I made the decision of abortion, not once but twice, it was like my soul was split in two. As I kept silent over those many years, vowing to never tell anybody, in the back of my mind it made me feel like it never really happened.
When I finally made the decision that I needed help and I needed to find forgiveness, God took me through a process of facing my fears and seeing my sin for what it was so I could experience his love, grace and forgiveness. Which had been there for me all along! Through that powerful transformation, the very thing that had kept me silent was now the thing that launched me forward to passionately tell my story.
I was shocked by the statistics that one in three women were suffering silently, just as I had been. Many of them with nowhere to go and no way to find that freedom that their hearts longed for. How could I keep silent when God did so much for me and set me completely free? Although the memory is still there, the pain is gone and there is a sweetness in my life because I know that has God forgiven me.
God loves you and he has always loved you. Knowing God’s love for me gave me the courage to face my biggest fears. Repeatedly I see women coming to an abortion recovery group looking downtrodden and reserved. Week by week I see them being transformed, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, and they leave the class with passion and a new zest for life!
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The Hearts of Hope program and classes offered at the Pregnancy Resource Center is available to anyone who has feelings of guilt, shame, numbness or regret from a past abortion. We are here to talk with you and to help you make sense of the emotions and feelings you are experiencing. Connect with us by using our confidential contact page.
