It is so surreal to try to piece things together after the trauma of an abortion. I could really relate to this video from “Live Action” on
Fathers who did not want abortions but had no choice.
I honestly do not have any idea how deeply my abortion impacted the father of the baby. I was a teenager, kicked out of the house and disowned because I was pregnant. The babys father had said he would marry me – he never asked me to have an abortion, but he never fought to keep our son either. We were both young and afraid.
As things got crazier with all the pressures from my father to abort, I caved in to the abortion without even speaking to the father again. It was many years before we touched base…I know he had struggled with addiction but had been sober for decades. He apologized to me for not being stronger, especially when he heard the impact of my saline abortion on my life. I apologized to him for aborting his child.
God is good in the end though. He used the loss of our son Joshua to develop “Entering Canaan” and bring thousands of people to His healing over the past 30 years.
I am so happy men are beginning to really step forward. It should be their decision too. Abortion has hurt so many- may we, by His grace heal and unite to end this terrible scourge…
