One Sunday morning at Perimeter, the pastor preached about the sanctity of life. A woman in our church who had an abortion decades earlier and never told anyone—not even her husband—could no longer carry the guilt and shame she felt. She cried during the service. Later that afternoon, she said to her husband, “I need to tell you something I’ve never told anyone else. Long before we were married, when I was very young, I had an abortion.” His response was beautiful: “I love you unconditionally, and I am sorry that you have been carrying that pain all by yourself for so many years.”
