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Wow. What a disappointing response.

Stephanie, you will never meet kinder, gentler, more generous & loving people than the volunteers at pro-life Christian crisis pregnancy centers.

They help mothers and their babies, all for free, in contrast to abortion clinics which just want their business. Pro-life crisis pregnancy centers give mothers the honest, accurate information and practical assistance they need to avoid a lifetime of avoidable regret.

Imagine the anguish of a girl who has an abortion at 10 or 12 weeks from conception, believing the lie that "it's just a blob of tissue," and then months or years later she learns the truth!  Imagine her guilt and pain and grief when a pregnant friend someday shows her the 3D ultrasound of her (the friend's) unborn baby, smiling or sucking his thumb at the same age when she aborted her own baby? 


Can you imagine the nightmares that poor woman will have?  It's no wonder that women who have had abortions are at increased risk of suicide.

Perhaps it's easier for me to imagine their pain than it is for you, because I know some of those women. One of them, a very dear friend, whose abortion was decades ago, told me, "the sadness never leaves."  She said that she thinks about it every single day. She even told me that her abortion was the worst experience of her life -- and she has had plenty of very bad experiences to compare with, including a rape.

One woman who I do not know called me up, some years ago, crying.  (She had looked in the phonebook under "abortion alternatives," and found the number for a pro-life charity that I volunteered for; I was providing phone coverage for a few weeks while the usual person was moving.)

I was a complete stranger, but she desperately needed someone to talk to.  I remember that there was a hurricane threatening NC at the time.

This is the story she told me:

She had had her abortion a few years earlier, when another hurricane was threatening the NC coast. She hadn't told anyone she knew. She just did it, and went on with her life, and tried not to think about it.

That worked, for quite a while.  But then, one day, a few years later, she walked into a grocery store -- and saw the bread shelves empty, and people lined up buying bottled water and flashlight batteries -- just like when she had her abortion.  The horrible memories came flooding back, and she just fell apart.

She had no one to talk to, because nobody in her circle of friends and family knew her secret.  That's why she called me.

I have no counseling training, but she needed someone to listen, and I could do that.

She was a Christian, and I suggested that she talk to her pastor, because most of them do have counseling training.  But she told me she couldn't bring herself to do that, because she couldn't bear what he would think of her if he knew her secret.

Since she was obviously very repentant, I reminded her that Jesus had paid the price for that sin, and every other, and that God forgives Christians their repented sins. She replied that she knew that, but that she could not forgive herself.

She also told me that she was now in her upper 30s, and still single, and she realized that baby was probably the only one she would ever have, which made her sorrow even worse.

I couldn't do much for her.  I gave her the phone numbers of two places that offer free counseling to post-abortive women, and I prayed for her, and I listened to her talk and cry.

That's the sort of tragedy that Christian pro-life crisis pregnancy centers prevent. Yet you want to ban them??

That's not pro-choice. That's pro-abortion, at the expense of both mothers and children.

Sadly yours,
Dave