Abortion and the black woman
Abortion and the black woman
Tamara* grew up in a loving home with two parents. People who knew her would have said she was an overachiever, one of those “Most Likely to Succeed” types. She was one of the many African Americans in her school to receive scholarships to attend college. Then she met a man—an older man who stole her heart and her virginity.
Pregnant at 18, she made the choice to have an abortion. Unfortunately, Tamara remained in sin, and by the time she was in her mid-20s, had four more abortions. Now 30 years old with two kids, Tamara lives with an ache in her heart at the unnecessary loss of the other children by her choice to abort them.
“Having children made me realize the ultimate value of life beyond my selfish motivations of what I felt life was about,” Tamara told me. “After having my first child I realized or began to feel the other children I once had the opportunity to have were still my children. I have dealt with a greater sense of regret and conviction after having children. I have realized the gift it is to be chosen by God to nurture and raise the seeds he plants, his children, whether they were conceived by sin and lust or by love.”
She made the decisions to abort to “save a relationship [with her boyfriend] for four of them and the fifth due to finances and fear.” Tamara now believes that abortion is wrong. She shared through tears…