Why is Repentance Necessary?

In the post, Heal the Brokenhearted and Comfort Their Grief, Miscarriage Moms For Life offers to memorialize aborted babies for mothers (or other family). Some may question why would we open this up to those involved in abortion. This is an act of compassion. Compassion facilitates healing whereas condemnation does not. This post is NOT meant to condemn or judge.

To learn more about the difference between conviction and condemnation, read our book, Other Side Of Grief.

It can be easy for us who so desperately wanted our babies to live on earth with us to struggle with feeling compassion towards those who aborted their child(ren). We who mourn our dead child(ren) often find the act of abortion heinous for many of us see it as the murder of children (though it is not P.C. to admit this, we do so as part of our religious beliefs and/or deeply held maternal convictions). We may not realize that some women are pressured into having abortions without wanting to abort while other women may not understand what they are doing until it is too late.

While our views that abortion is murder remain intact, we, as Christians, make the distinction between the act of sin and the one committing the sin and can extend compassion towards ones who commit sin without condoning the sin. But for us to do that without falling into the trap of enabling the sin, repentance is necessary. [Repentance may look different for those who were coerced or deceived into aborting compared to those who willing sought it out.] Repentance is a turning away from the act of sin so that the repentant person no longer agrees with nor commits the sin. Repentance removes enablement and offers a better way of living. Each of us–whether we have had an abortion or not–need to repent. (Read more on repentance.)