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| Derrell Registered user Username: Derrell Post Number: 137 Registered: 10-2002 |
A few days ago I made a business visit to an organization called AAA Women's Services in Chattanooga, TN. They are an abortion alternative group. Attached to their office building is a pavilion that houses an enormous black granite memorial wall to aborted babies. It is covered with tiny plaques placed by the mothers. They contain a name, date of death, and a short message. Most of them say something like "Please forgive me", "I'll hold you in heaven" etc. At the foot of the wall are hundreds of absolutely chilling letters left there by those mothers. Here is an excerpt from one of them. It reflects the others. "... you are in my dreams every night. I hold you and love you, and then I am holding your broken little body and I beg your forgiveness for what I did to you my baby. In the day I hear your cries and I see you out of the corner of my eye. I see other babies and my body aches for you." "I cant say my regret in words. I hope that in heaven you can forgive me because I cant forgive myself for what I did to you my own little baby." I was deeply affected by that visit, and especially by reading those letters and plaques. Deeply affected. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 3110 Registered: 12-2003  |
Oh, my goodness, Derrell--I just tried to read this post to Richard and I couldn't; I asked him to come read it himself because I was crying. He observed that he suspects one factor in abortion supporters' "energy" to promote their cause is a deep need to cover up guilt. There are so many people, both the unborn dead and their broken mothers AND fathers, whose eternal healing lies in Jesus. I pray the living will come to know Him, and I thank Him we can trust Him with the sleeping ones. (And I'm not referring to "soul sleep"--I mean sleep in the Biblical sense of the first death!) Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 2133 Registered: 3-2004  |
As I read this I thanked God for the healing He has done in my life. Thank you God. Diana | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 530 Registered: 4-2000  |
The late Adrian Rogers, a well-known Baptist minister from Memphis, aptly reminded pregnant women that, "You are going to have a baby--the only question is if you want it to be dead or alive." Dennis Fischer | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 1127 Registered: 3-2005 |
Derrell, thanks for the reminder of what terrible consequences abortion has. It just amazes me how desensitized we have become about abortion in this country, and we wink, and look the other way. I personally could never in good conscience vote for a politician who is pro-abortion, if there is another pro-life candidate choice. The good news is that God's grace can forgive and Christ's blood will cover even the sin of abortion, and I believe these babies are in a special place with the Lord. Stan | ||
| Derrell Registered user Username: Derrell Post Number: 138 Registered: 10-2002 |
The site on which the memorial wall stands was an abortion clinic that went out of business in 1996. Over 35,000 babies died within those walls. There are now no abortion clinics in Chattanooga. That one was the last. At that facililty they provide free ultrasounds to pregnant women. Kimberly George, the Director of AAA Women's Services, said that over 90% of the women who see an ultrasound decide against abortion, and of those who proceed with it, around 85% come back for counseling and therapy. |
