Our LCMS president, Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison, has made a statement condemning not only abortion, but the unspeakably wicked laws recently passed in New York and Illinois.

I believe President Harrison covered all the important bases in his article except possibly for one. Namely that there are Christian women who have had abortions. What about them?

While aborting a child is a deadly sin in more ways than one, for which women pay a dreadful price, even it can be forgiven the woman who repents and seeks absolution. She will be cleansed by the blood of Christ, fully forgiven, and restored to the peace of God which surpasses understanding.