After the elegant lady sat down, an attractive athletic white woman in a dance costume walked to the podium in the National Memorial for the Unborn. She was brave beyond belief as she let the people gathered there look into her past, along with her two teenage daughters who were there to support her. She revealed that at 13 she met a pastor's daughter who told her she had an abortion. In her young mind she decided that must mean it is o.k. to do such a thing. Her lifestyle included many boyfriends and numerous abortions. Then she said "I'm not sure how many. I'm not much of a speaker but a dancer. I want to share my story, please step outside."
The Memorial has a yard with thousands of rocks to represent the 35,000 babies that died on this location when it was an abortion clinic. This woman, with white tennis shoes and a swirly red dress moved over the rough surface with grace. As the melody of a song played on a CD player, she expressed with heart wrenching unspoken eloquence the grief, shame and then freedom and celebration that forgiveness through faith in Jesus' sacrifice and unconditional love can meant to this wounded woman.
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