About 25 years ago at the suggestion of some well meaning friends and co-workers, one of them a nurse, I found myself being driven to an abortion clinic.  The friend who drove me had had an abortion.  I remember very little counseling and no one was visible outside praying. As messed up as my life was, I don’t know if it would have made a difference. I remember a girl who was in her late 20s who was having her 6th abortion. She looked so tired and worn out and old. 

I had the abortion and my troubled lifestyle only got worse.  I already had a wonderful daughter that for most of her years did not have a very mature loving mother.  Thankfully my mother stepped in, but I didn’t speak to her.  I wonder if she would have tried to prevent the abortion. 

As time passed, I never thought of what had taken place. I turned to God but some years later I was flipping through the channels on TV when I happened upon the yearly respect life mass for the unborn in Washington D.C. All of a sudden, as if caught in a whirlwind, I remembered my abortion.  It was so deeply repressed that I had walked away and never thought of that day again until that moment. There was much crying as I remembered my dreams of having murdered someone. I acknowledged my grave sin and went the next day to my priest to confess. I could not imagine how much my life would change.

Abortion is the great evil in the world today. Those that are deceiving men and women into thinking it does no harm to a human being are themselves gravely deceived. I now go to abortion clinics to try to stop the women and those working at the clinic from allowing horror into their lives.  I encourage them to spare the life of the child.

I keep hoping that politicians will actually lead and change the laws so that taking of innocent human life become unnecessary and unthinkable.  Thank you Lord for bringing me into your healing presence in your church; may you continue to awaken souls to the truth that has been written in their hearts to be SILENT NO MORE.