What reassurance for anyone who regrets a past abortion: Through Jesus’ sacrifice we can find peace and forgiveness. And are the rest of us any different? Let’s be like the man who “beat upon his chest in sorrow, exclaiming, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner’ and not like the judgmental Pharisee who prayed this prayer: ‘Thank God, I am not a sinner like everyone else!'” Jesus said that this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home forgiven! Luke 18.