A Scandinavian five year longitudinal study just released in the open access medical journal, BMC Medicine, finds that women who had abortions suffer feelings of "guilt," "anxiety," and "shame" for years after they kill their baby. From the study's conclusion:
The course of psychological responses to miscarriage and abortion differed during the five-year period after the event. Women who had undergone an abortion exhibited higher scores during the follow-up period for some outcomes. The difference in the courses of responses may partly result from the different characteristics of the two pregnancy termination events.
"The different characteristics of the two pregnancy termination events" indeed! And what about the man who paid for the mother of his child to kill the little baby nestled in her womb--has anyone studied his guilt and shame? Well, given the 1.3 million unborn babies we slaughter each year here in these United States, what are we to do?
The answer is always the same, found here in the powerful words of William Cowper:
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
And there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away.
Washed all my sins away, washed all my sins away;
And there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away.Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more.
Be saved, to sin no more, be saved, to sin no more;
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more.E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die...
