I am a firm believer in emotional healing, mdancin4theLord.
I am just concerned that most of the emotional scars women who have had abortions bear in secrecy and shame have been inflicted by some in the pro-life movement who claim to love these women but delight in torturing them.
It never occurs to us when we eat a hamburger that cows are sacred to Hindus....but if we had Hindus picketing McDonald's and calling us murderers and offering sidewalk counseling to encourage us to be vegetarians, we sure would.
We might even take to cooking burgers at home on our grills silently and guiltily. We would hide them in sturdy brown paper bags if we bought them in the supermarket.
But would we really feel guilty? Would we really believe that cows were sacred? Probably not. We would feel harassed and browbeaten and resentful and angry---and none of those are emotions that are likely to lead to conversion of heart.
I am just concerned that most of the emotional scars women who have had abortions bear in secrecy and shame have been inflicted by some in the pro-life movement who claim to love these women but delight in torturing them.
It never occurs to us when we eat a hamburger that cows are sacred to Hindus....but if we had Hindus picketing McDonald's and calling us murderers and offering sidewalk counseling to encourage us to be vegetarians, we sure would.
We might even take to cooking burgers at home on our grills silently and guiltily. We would hide them in sturdy brown paper bags if we bought them in the supermarket.
But would we really feel guilty? Would we really believe that cows were sacred? Probably not. We would feel harassed and browbeaten and resentful and angry---and none of those are emotions that are likely to lead to conversion of heart.
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