“The Louder We Shout to Justify Our Abortions, the More We Drown Out Our Heart”: Woman Who Had an Abortion 30 Years Ago Is Now Using Her Faith to Help Save Lives

By Billy Hallowell

As the abortion debate rages, Karen Ellison and her organization Deeper Still are working to change the way our culture thinks about life.

“I think that this whole abortion debate has tried to frame it around our identity. If I have to have children then somehow I am being enslaved in some way,” she said in a recent interview with The Pure Flix Podcast. “Children have become the bad guy in this and that somehow takes away from my womanhood and takes away from my identity.”

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Ellison continued, “But we’ve taken it to such an extreme degree and it has tipped women against their children and fathers against their children. We’ve become so idolatrous.”

Listen to Ellison, author of the book “Healing The Hurt That Won’t Heal: Freedom for Abortion-Wounded and Help For The Church They Fear,” share her story and her quest to help save lives:

She highlighted the recent Golden Globe Awards where actress Michelle Williams used her acceptance speech as an opportunity to shout her pro-abortion beliefs.

Her speech was met with thunderous applause and a standing ovation — a true sign of the times, said Ellison.

“The louder we shout to justify our abortions, the more you drown out your heart,” she said. “You want your heart to go numb, you don’t want to feel the guilt, you don’t want to feel the shame, you don’t want to acknowledge. You want the music so loud that you drown out the nightmares you are having.”

And Ellison knows from personal experience. When she was 22 years old, she had an abortion.

At the time, she said that there was no national conversation on abortion, so despite her Christian faith and Christian upbringing, she found external forces, like shame and fear, pressuring her to go through with the procedure.

Her experience led her on a path of discovery and she dedicated her life to sharing what true freedom is through Jesus Christ and the forgiveness that only God can bring.