30 Years Later: Post-Abortive Mother Saves Another Baby

By Seth -

“That demon laughed and increased the suction. My baby wouldn't come.” My eyes flitted to the brick edifice behind the woman, where other parents’ babies were being killed as she spoke. She continued, “He went inside with a scalpel. He cut him up. And he came out in two pieces. Then afterwards, they said, ‘You want Kool-Aid or cookies?’”

Thirty years after her abortion, this mother continued to grieve. But the long winter of her pain found joy on a spring morning when she returned to rescue the life of another from the same man who’d dismembered her baby.

She’d been passing by Founder’s Women’s Health Center in Columbus when she saw our team with signs showing abortion victims. One sign in particular caught her eye. It read, “Dr. Blank Kills Children.” She remembered that man and stopped to tell us of her encounter with him decades prior.

As she was sharing her story, a couple with whom I had spoken earlier came out of the abortion facility to sit in their car. Seeing them walk across the lot, the post-abortive mother followed them, pleading: “Nobody advocated for my son. Nobody did.”

She shared with them details of her decades of pain, then returned to us. “If one mother hears you, you did a good job,” she said, walking away.

Indeed, that morning one mother was listening. After sitting in their car for a while, the couple with the scheduled abortion returned to us and agreed to walk to a nearby Pregnancy Resource Center. An hour or so later, they came back to confirm they were no longer going to have the abortion!

Though the post-abortive mother left too soon to see the fruit of her appeal, the picture of redemption was compelling. For 30 years she’d lamented placing her baby in the cruel clutch of Harley Blank—the man who performed the first legal abortion in Ohio. But now she’d returned to play a pivotal role in rescuing another from his grasp.

Anyone who’s spent time in the resistance to abortion knows that there is great pain—for parents grieving their babies, siblings wishing they could meet their brothers or sisters. But we know the good news that God has provided a way for us to be forgiven. And sometimes, like I saw on that warm spring morning recently, He even grants us opportunities to be part of fighting the evil which once deceived us.

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