September 27, 2024 Daily Devotion

Abortion is Not Good for Women!

Deuteronomy 30:19

Fr. Tony Lusvardi, SJ concludes his homily on “Choose Life, South Dakota:”

But even though the incompatibility of abortion with Christianity is clear, we can’t lose sight of the fact that the Church is against abortion because she is for life, the life that our Creator and Redeemer so deeply wants to give us. Therefore, we should reject as false any way of framing prolife principles as being against women. Aside from the fact that because of sex-selection abortions, somewhat over half of the children aborted are female themselves, abortion is not good for women.

While organizations like “Shout Your Abortion” tell women abortion is something to be proud of, I can tell you from hearing confessions, that abortion does not make women free. Even decades later—when their babies, if they’d lived, would have had families of their own—these children remain as a haunting accusation. The sin of abortion, like all others can be forgiven, and God’s mercy can provide healing, but do not be under any illusion: abortion does not make you free.