Helping women considering an abortion on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the

problems that people face. We are continuing to vote the month of August to the Planned

parenthood crisis that has really gripped our nation and has forced a fresh conversation

among Christians and the wider culture about issues of the sanctity

of life.

And in the aftermath of the Planned Parenthood revelations, many Christians have expressed their

horror at the reality of abortion.

That horror is well-founded because abortion truly is horrible.

And yet it's one thing to express shock as we address the culture.

And it's another thing to draw near to women who are wrestling with whether or not to have an abortion.

We need understanding.

And so we don't want to just talk about how to address the culture. We want to talk about how to help women who are struggling with this decision. To help us answer this question, I've asked Camille Cates to join us on the podcast today. She's the youth division director of Healing Hearts, a ministry that helps post-abortive women.

And one of the things that I want to ask you, Camille, is to help us understand some of the

reasons that a woman would seek out an abortion.

Thank you, Heath, for having me.

I think there's two kind of areas or reasons why women would seek an abortion.

The first would be more of a situational.

You know, it's what they see kind of in their face. So a woman might seek an abortion because she finds herself pregnant, but she's not married. And she is thinking about single parenting

and deciding in her own mind that she cannot do that on her own.

A pregnancy she might feel gets in the way of her educational or career goals so she would seek

an abortion. A couple might be diagnosed with medical problems in a pregnancy and the doctor

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