But the hardest chapters were the last three as she talks about her heart and work for the end of china's one child policy and the abortions involved in that. This paragraph hit me hard...
"When you consider that 86 percent of all Chinese women have had at least one abortion and 52 percent have had two or more, and when more than 40 percent of American women will have an abortion by the age of forty-five, it's clear that hundreds of millions of women are victims of abortion, along with their babies."I may have just been naive but I had no idea the extent to which this is happening, and I almost panicked trying to think back to when I might have carelessly talked about the evil of abortion in the company of somebody who has had and will continue to (for whatever reason) carry that burden. I think abortion is an evil, but an evil of a broken society not of a woman who has been failed by society into thinking she cannot or doesn't want to bring her child into the world. I know of a very few girls who have had abortions but the statistics show that I am in the company of far more that I don't know about, so I wish to be so bold as to challenge that we need to get our hearts right on this issue and always speak on the subject as if we were talking to somebody who had just told us they have had an abortion. I am pro-life but I am realising that there is no 'safe' Sunday School room for my unrestrained opinions and passions of the heart. "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
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