In the September/October 2004 issue of Ramah’s Voice (Volume 5, Number 3), Sydna A. Massé answers questions she said she heard repeatedly from post-abortion ministry leaders. The first is whether the Bible is clear that the souls of aborted babies are in Heaven. Massé writes that she believes it is, pointing to passages such as 2 Samuel 12:22–23, Ecclesiastes 6:3–6, Psalm 27:10, and Matthew 18:10, and she rejects using uncertainty about Heaven as a deterrent.
She also asks whether people who have never had an abortion can help the post-abortive find healing. Citing Isaiah 61, she argues that the work does not require an “abortion credential,” and she uses everyday comparisons — a veterinarian has never been an animal; many male obstetricians have never given birth — to say that, with training and a calling, anyone can serve. She writes that non-post-abortive workers can be “a window to the Christian community” that loves rather than judges.
Other questions include whether potential volunteers should attend a post-abortion Bible study, whether memorial services help in healing, and whether a person must wait a year after an abortion, or avoid a class during pregnancy, before joining a group. Massé recounts her own first resistance to attending a study, then the grief, anger, and forgiveness work that followed. She suggests that every pregnancy-center worker, not only those with an abortion in their past, be urged to take part in such a study. She also discusses memorial services in the light of Ecclesiastes 7:2 and cautions that readiness depends more on remorse and denial than on a fixed waiting period.
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