Abortion regret, March 17, 2025.

Dear Angela, thank you for writing to me, and I'm very sorry about your distress.

I hope that the Lord can use some of what I write here to bring you some measure of comfort.

I do know that the comfort is there,

and so my prayer is that the spirit will crack open the words for you. From what my cousin tells me,

you had an abortion while still in high school, two years before you were converted to Christ.

At the time of the abortion, you were an ardent defender of the pro-choice position and didn't

feel at all bad about it. You were all in. All of that

started to turn around after you became a Christian, but somewhat gradually, nothing too deep.

You got married to a good Christian man five years ago, and you have two kids now. About six months ago,

you had to go up to the university for something and saw one of those graphic pro-life displays at the

booth of an activist student group. And as my cousin put it, that really messed you up. Do I have it

about right? Since that time, you've had a couple of bouts with black depression, and the rest of the

time you've spent grappling with a nagging sense of ongoing guilt. Is that about it? Some of what I

write, you have no doubt heard before,

but I think it will be best to simply walk through this as methodically as I can from the beginning.

The place to begin is with the doctrine of sin. A natural mistake is often made whenever we try

to deal with severe guilt. What we do is try to soften the guilt by softening the sin.

This can be done by many different means, but they all aim at the same object, which is try to soften the guilt by softening the sin. This can be done by many different

means, but they all aim at the same object, which is to lessen the pain you feel by lessening

your responsibility for the sin through various excuses and explanations. My boyfriend pressured me.

I was only 17. My biology teacher taught us it was just a cluster of cells. And whatever truth there might be in these explanations,

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