Yesterday was the thirty-first anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I’d forgotten. Last night I was listening to a radio show called Family Life Today, and I was reminded. The host, Dennis Rainey, was interviewing a woman named Carol Everett. She’d had an abortion shortly after the Roe v. Wade ruling.
Afterward, Ms. Everett worked for the man who’d aborted her child for the next six years. She described her high pressure sales mentality and her $25.00 commission per abortion, convincing women to come in and have their babies killed. Ms. Everett’s teenage daughter even worked there for a time.
As this woman described what happened after a 32 year-old woman with two kids died after she bled out from a botched abortion, my heart sank. I don’t usually listen to Family Life Today and this was a story I really didn’t want to hear. But I was riveted.
Ms. Everett is now saved, but she clearly still feels overwhelming guilt from that time in her life. The host gave her such words of comfort, that I was overcome with emotion and began to cry. The host quoted two passages of Scripture:
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:11-12
and:
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2
What an awesome God we worship! The Bible is filled with such comforting passages. No matter what we’ve done in our wretched lives, once we come to Christ, repent of our sins, accept Him as Lord and Savior and submit to Him, there is no more condemnation.
The weight of those words touched my heart, and I praised God. I’m so very thankful, eternally grateful that He had mercy on me. I love Him because He first loved me.
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