Response to Why Post Abortion Support is Unbiblical by Patte Smith

Response to Why Post Abortion Support is Unbiblical by Patte Smith
By Flip Benham

I believe Patte has spoken a great truth here.  We have said this in so many ways and so often, but I have never agreed that Post Abortion Support is unbiblical.  Reason:  The very best thing we can do for a mother who has killed her baby is to tell her the truth.  "The wounds of a friend bring healing, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse."  Proverbs 27:6.  This is the very first item on the agenda of all sound Post Abortion Counseling.  Mothers need to be made aware that they have killed their child, broken the sixth Commandment of Almighty God, and will spend an eternity in hell if this sin is not truly repented of.  God does not just wink at sin.

Sinners need to be confronted in their sin or they will never know they are sinners.  We have been involved in Post Abortion Counseling for twenty years now.  Often when young ladies are leaving the abortion mill after they have done their heinous deed, we ask them whether or not it was a baby boy or a baby girl that they just killed.  This may not appear very compassionate to some, but sometimes the kindest thing we can do is tell them the truth.  It is an awful truth but, if we truly love them, we will confront them.

Patte may not understand the use we make of those little dolls.  When mothers name their child (allow the child to be born) they are confessing (homo-logeo), agreeing with God that what they have done is murder.  This enables them to repent of their sin. 

Many mothers do everything they can to avoid this confession and conceal the truth of what they have done and are therefore deprived of the mercy that only God can give.  Proverbs 28:13.  They are truly fugitives until death.  If one truly loves these fugitives he will show them the way out of their self-imposed incarceration (it was their choice to kill, but the consequences of that choice are no longer their choice).  They are truly fugitives!  Drugs, broken relationships, frigidity, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, suicide, are all the lot of one who chooses to kill her own child.

Ever wonder why some mothers become so terribly agitated at the graphic signs we hold?  I have had mothers literally rip the sign from my hands, throw it into the middle of the street, and stomp on it, holding up traffic in both directions.  Totally out of control!  Why?  Simply because someone unearthed what she had so desperately been trying to conceal.  God's love is unconditional to be sure, but His mercy is based upon a condition - the confession of sin (Proverbs 28:13).  No confession, no mercy. 

Because we love these mothers, we bring out the graphic signs.  The world calls this hate, but God calls it love:  "The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify that what it does is evil."  John 7:7. 

Post Abortion Counseling, as we do it, confronts the mother with her sin and then allows the child the mother killed, to be born.  This is a very important step and here is why:

"A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of the joy that her child is born into the world."  John 16:21.   Once the process of a child growing in the womb ceases (abortion - not so miscarriage) the mother's anguish continues.  The child must be birthed in the mother's mind and heart.  The truth must be told.  This is very painful yet absolutely necessary for forgiveness to take place and mercy to be applied.  Mothers must confess the horrible truth of what they have done - they are murderers!  No chance of going to heaven!  No chance of calling themselves Christian!  And throw themselves on the mercy of God's court.  It is only here (true and heartfelt repentance brought about by Godly sorrow over sin) that the blood of Christ can make perfect atonement, and mercy be poured out and applied.

This is all for the glory of God!  Now, instead of being a fugitive until death , these mothers a set free by the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be "...oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of HIS splendor.  They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated..." Isaiah 61: 3-4.