1-minute devotion for Tuesday 9/23/25
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves;
ensure justice for those being crushed.” Proverbs 31:8 NLT
To end a child’s life is not health care.
In His Love, Cindy
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“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122:6
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Many, if not most women are traumatized after having an abortion. But you will never hear about that because Pro-Abortion proponents don’t want you to know the heart-breaking, hidden side of abortion.
The following quotes are just a few testimonies from real women who had abortions and what they want other women to know.
It’s been 50 years, but I am still grieved. Only through the forgiveness of Jesus have I been able to live with what I did.
Nobody will ever understand what you will go through after it’s all done. Abortion doesn’t make a baby go away, it just makes a dead baby.”
I pray God forgives me and that someday I’ll see my baby in heaven. It’s been 26 years and I will never forget.”
I’m 51 and had my abortion when I was 18. I think about my baby every day.”
I am 70 years old; I had an abortion 30 years ago. I still regret my abortion every day of my life. I think about the baby that I aborted.…
I killed my baby, it has been 33 years, please don’t kill your baby it will change your life forever…”
I made the biggest mistake of my life and didn’t see it, until it was too late. I regret going through with the abortion. I’m lost, hurt, and the guilt is eating me alive.
We are told as women we have a choice but no one explains what we are choosing. I doubt many would choose to feel the way I have for 10 years so that is why I am SILENT NO MORE.
There is no safety net at Planned Parenthood to protect women who may be at risk for traumatization. They don’t care.
A textbook of the National Abortion Federation has identified many “negative reactions” (p.28-29) that some women have after abortion; some are trauma symptoms: nightmares about babies, insomnia, negative emotions of
guilt, anger, worthlessness, and shame, “blocking out the experience,” avoiding things that trigger memories about the abortion, “engaging in self-punishing behaviors such as substance abuse . . . and relationships with abusive partners,” suicidal thoughts, “relentless thoughts of
being a bad person,” and various self-destructive behaviors (Baker, Beresford, Halvorson-Boyd, & Garrity, 1999 pp.28-29).
Current Data on Side Effects of Abortion
In Rue et al. (2004), 30% of the American women reported nightmares associated with their abortion.
Intrusion symptoms reported after abortion include nightmares, flashbacks, and memories that “seemed to intrude despite trying to forget” (Dykes, Slade, & Haywood, 2010).
In a study comparing 331 Russian and 217 American women, 48% of the Russians and 65% of the Americans reported one or more intrusion symptoms
specifically related to a past abortion (Rue, Coleman, Rue, & Reardon, 2004).
There is a lot more data. You can read the article by Martha Shuping, M.D., M.A. at Counterpoint: Long-Lasting Distress after Abortion to access more studies.
Did You Know?
“Abortion is known as a main cause of maternal mortality, life-threatening complications such as hemorrhage, fever, and infection on the one hand, and psychological disorders such as regret, guilt, smoking, alcoholism, self-destructive behaviors, and even suicide on the other.” NIH (National Institutes of Health)
You probably haven’t heard about these studies and for obvious reasons. The abortion industry doesn’t want you to know! They want women to believe that pro-life groups want to take away their right to health care. They want women to believe that their pregnancy isn’t a baby. It’s a clump of cells. This is all propaganda. If they really sought the welfare of the woman as they purport to do, they would show her an ultrasound and make sure she had all the facts. But, well, they would lose a lot of money if they did that!
“Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.” Isaiah 5:20
“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,” Romans 1:18 NIV Read full chapter
“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.” 1 Timothy 4:1-2
Read More:
The Lasting Trauma of Abortion, Newsweek
If you have had an abortion and are suffering trauma, know that Jesus loves you. He will forgive you and cleanse you from a guilty conscience. See my page Who Is Jesus?
“since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus … let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience …” Hebrews 10:19&22 NIV
In His Love, Cindy
Do you want to know more about Jesus? See my page Who Is Jesus?
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122:6
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We must not affirm sinful behavior because it has become acceptable in our culture. If you aren’t sure about which behaviors are evil and/or dangerous, the truth can be found in the Bible. God’s Word is Truth and the final authority. The Word says,
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 NIV
Going along with anything and everything is not love. Sin brings pain and heartache. It always does. That’s why God warns us against it.
“This is the way sin works: it comes covered in an attractive veneer that hides its evil and hideous consequences.” Pastor David Jeremiah
Standing for truth is not being legalistic, as some accuse. Speaking the truth protects the innocent. Truth is the antidote for deception and deception is the enemy of mankind.
Standing for truth isn’t hard to do when evil is something society detests. But what about when sinful behavior is something our culture affirms? What sin does our society affirm? All you have to do is watch TV to find out. TV is filled with stories that seek to normalize sinful behaviors.
I never thought I’d see the day when women would celebrate because they had won the right to murder their unborn baby. But many women in America demand abortion rights during all months of pregnancy, and they call it healthcare. It’s not healthcare we’re talking about. It’s killing your baby for convenience. If we’re going to have this discussion, we should at least be honest about it.
There’s a reason abortion advocates call it healthcare. It’s more palatable to call it healthcare or women’s rights than to call it what it is.
Abortion is just one evil that our culture affirms. There are many others. My question for you is: Will you love? Or will you affirm evil? Affirming evil is not love. It takes courage to stand up for what is right.
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 NIV
At one time, I didn’t understand this verse. Why would anyone delight in evil? Now I understand.
What other sinful behaviors does our culture affirm that are, in reality, dangerous paths? Will you stand up for truth to protect the innocent and/or the misinformed? It won’t be easy, but it will be loving.
In His Love, Cindy
Do you want to know more about Jesus? See my page Who Is Jesus?
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122:6
Photo by Sherry Cory, Chasing Birds at Dawn
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I had to post this video! I just had to!
In His Love, Cindy
Do you want to know more about Jesus? See my page Who Is Jesus?
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122:6
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It’s about your baby. I get angry every time I see a pro-abortion political ad. They never talk about abortion. They only talk about “reproductive rights” or “women’s health care”. That’s a diversion to make their case more palatable.
But that isn’t the real issue. The real issue is should it be legal for a mother to kill her unborn baby? It’s illegal to kill your child after he’s born (at least for now). Should it be legal to kill your baby all the way up to birth? That’s what they want, the right to abortion at any time during pregnancy with no limitations.
The powers behind the abortion industry have been successful in changing the focus of the debate because discussing the right to kill your child is too offensive.
Have you ever wondered why there is such a strong effort to make abortion acceptable to the public? What drives the abortion industry? Why is the strategy to promote abortion so carefully planned and controlled? As with most things, it’s money. So let’s follow the money! Here’s what I found:
Oh! So limiting abortion is bad for the economy? That’s despicable! Pro-abortion activists always divert the conversation away from the real issue, the life of an unborn child.
Meanwhile, more than 1 million abortions took place in the U.S. last year. That’s the highest number in more than a decade, per the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
No limit: Six states and Washington, D.C., do not impose any term restrictions. (Axios) That means abortions are legal through the 9th month.
Abortion without limits is their ultimate goal.
If you believe that abortion is about women’s rights, you have been deceived by the smokescreen created by the pro-abortion lobby.
We must stand up for the vulnerable and helpless children.
“Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Rescue the weak and needy;
Save them from the hand of the wicked.
They do not know nor do they understand;
They walk around in darkness;” Psalm 82:3-5 NASB
“Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.” Psalm 127:3 NLT
For more facts about abortion and the unborn child see my earlier posts:
Your Unborn Child Is Not Just a Clump of Cells
Supreme Court and the Mississippi Abortion Law
In His Love, Cindy
Do you want to know more about Jesus? See my page Who Is Jesus?
Pray for Israel!
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Over the next few months leading up to the election, you may notice an increase in ads for “reproductive rights”. “Reproductive rights” is an euphemism for abortion. There are many euphemisms for abortion including women’s rights, women’s healthcare, reproductive choice, pro-choice, and others.
Using these euphemisms, abortion advocates redirect the conversation away from the child and to the child’s mother—or, as they prefer to say, “the woman.”
But the fact is, we’re really talking about abortion, which is the taking of a human life while in the mother’s womb. Abortion rights activists claim the unborn fetus is not a baby, but we all know that it is a baby and the “person with a capacity for pregnancy” is the mother.
They can change the language all they want, but it doesn’t change the reality.
A euphemism is a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant.
Over time, the use of euphemisms can, and have, changed society’s view on abortion. It is a deception that seeks to hide the reality of murdering a child and cloaks that murder in a positive light.
It isn’t the worst thing in the world to have a baby you didn’t plan on. The worst thing in the world is to kill that baby.
But don’t expect pro-abortion activists to fight for the right to kill your baby. That sounds too harsh. And it is.
These linguistic sleights of hand work. Abortion advocates themselves have been and remain deceived—seduced even—by these very euphemisms. They sincerely believe the moral claims they assume in this way of speaking.
“Those responsible for changing the language have changed the way people think and believe and act.” Trent Hunter, Aborion or Feticide: Words Matter (I encourage you to read this excellent article.)
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” Isaiah 5:20 NIV
“For You created my innermost parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made;” Psalm 139:13-14 NIV
So as you watch TV or scroll social media, take note of the deception being used to mislead the public into supporting the murder of babies in the mother’s womb. Do not be deceived by euphemisms.
In His Love, Cindy
Do you want to know more about Jesus? See my page Who Is Jesus?
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Sources:
C-SPAN
Trent Hunter, Aborion or Feticide: Words Matter
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“Before I was born the Lord called me;
from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.” Isaiah 49:1
My thoughts: He knew you when you were growing in your mother’s womb.
In His Love, Cindy
Do you want to know more about Jesus? See my page Who Is Jesus?
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Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
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These 2 photos are of the same baby. The only difference between these 2 photos is the baby’s location (in the mother’s womb and after birth).
Did you know that you were created the moment your mother’s egg and your father’s sperm were united? Yes, you were created about 9 months before the day of your birth. At the moment of conception, your exact genetic makeup was determined: your sex, your hair color, skin color, eye color, all of it!
At the instant of fertilization, your baby’s genes and sex are set. If the sperm has a Y chromosome, your baby will be a boy. If it has an X chromosome, the baby will be a girl.
Web MD https://www.webmd.com/baby/understanding-conception
After conception, you started to grow and continued to develop until about age 25. (Emerging science about brain development suggests that most people don’t reach full maturity until the age 25.)
“For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:13-16 NIV (emphasis mine)
God is present in the smallest parts of our lives. Even before we are born, He is at work.
Abortion rights advocates push the erroneous belief that the baby in his/her mother’s womb is not a human being. They refer to her as the “fetus”, “a clump of cells”, a “zygote”, or even a “parasite”. There is a reason behind this.
Unwanted human beings have always been belittled and dehumanized by language in order to justify killing them.
Rebecca Dyer
During the Holocaust, Jews were not considered human. During slavery in America, blacks were not considered “persons” because of their skin color.
A human is a human, and calling it anything else in order to marginalize its value is wrong.
“It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception … and that this developing human always is a member of our species in all stages of life”
Harvard University Medical School professor Micheline Matthews-Ross testified before a 1981 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Someone must stand up and say, “THIS IS NOT RIGHT!”
“Let those who love the Lord hate evil,
for he guards the lives of his faithful ones
and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 97:10 NIV
To be Pro-Choice means that you believe it is a mother’s choice whether her baby will live or be killed. Let’s call it what it is. You can call it something else, like women’s rights, autonomy, healthcare, etc., but that does not change the truth. Women who face an unplanned pregnancy should not be fed lies!
You have to ask yourself, “Why is there so much pro-abortion propaganda, misinformation, and lies?
According to a 2019 report, revenue for the abortion industry has continued to grow. It has been growing at a rate of 1.7% over the past five years and is expected to total $4.1 billion in 2023.
Follow the money!
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” 1 Timothy 6:10 NIV
Many young people have been brainwashed by a pro-abortion agenda. Kristin Hawkins makes pro-life speeches at universities around the country. You can find her on YouTube. It will open your eyes to what we are up against and the lies these students believe.
(Jesus rebuked the Pharisees saying,) “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. John 8:44 NIV (emphasis mine)
“All that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
In His Love, Cindy
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“Blessed is one who considers the helpless;
The Lord will save him on a day of trouble.
The Lord will protect him and keep him alive,
And he will be called blessed upon the earth;
And do not turn him over to the desire of his enemies. Psalm 41:1-2 NASB (emphasis mine)
In His Love, Cindy
My Thoughts: If you are fighting for the lives of unborn children, God says you are blessed!
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The photo above was taken the day after my daughter’s birth. She was born 5 weeks premature and weighed 5 lbs 12 oz when I took her home 7 days later.
If she had not arrived early, this is what she would have looked like while in the womb. The same baby you see in the photo above would exist, just in a different location. She would not have been “just a clump of cells”. But that is what pro-abortion advocates want you to believe.
Pro-abortion activists want you to believe that the child in the womb is not a human being. They say it is a zygote, a fetus, or even just a clump of cells, but certainly not a human being with the right to live. Of course, this is the entire point. That living, growing body in the womb IS a human being, an innocent child, dependent on her mother to grow and thrive until she’s ready to enter the world. Even then, she is dependent on her parents to nurture and care for her until she is an adult (or maybe forever).
Mothers who want their babies KNOW that the life growing inside of them is their baby. They don’t wonder if it’s a baby or a clump of cells. It’s only when having a child is inconvenient that the mother’s attitude and beliefs dramatically change.
The photo below was taken 35 years later in Africa where she volunteered in a children’s hospital for 6 months, her days ordained and written in God’s book before they came to be.
“For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well…
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:13-14 and 16 NIV
In His Love, Cindy
Do you want to know more about Jesus? See my page Who Is Jesus?
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