Why do the women in pink demonstrate for such causes as the supposed innocence of Lindsay Clancy?  Why, of all people, women?  Why do they wear pink, as though it were feminine to kill one’s children?  Others besides me have made the point that a culture which allows abortion has already cheapened the life of little ones, but the women in pink do not just think that what Mrs. Clancy did was only slightly wrong or that her responsibility for her acts was impaired.  They make a hero of her, and make devils of those who condemn what she did.

For this reason one suspects that another, secret motive is in play:  The revenge of conscience.  The great majority of the women in pink have probably either had abortions themselves or supported abortions.  For this reason, they desperately need to prove that they are good after all.  They wear pink to show that they are still women, even after this most unwomenly and unmotherly of deeds.  Lindsay Clancy’s accusers must feel to them like their own accusers.

Moreover, the need to maintain a unity of feeling with other women affects some women with the force of a driving tide.  Those who are most affected by this motive respond most strongly to the women with the strongest feelings, especially those in their own milieu, and the ones with the strongest feelings are the ones who are burning with their own suppressed consciousness of guilt.

If you are one of these women:  There is a way out of this syndrome, but you must recognize what you have done, admit that it was wrong, and repent.  You may think recognition, confession, and repentance would be too painful to bear, but they cannot possibly be more painful than the pain you bear year after year, locking it up, denying it, and holding it in until it is killing you inside.

Relief can be found only in the mercy of the God who came to save us.  You cannot “forgive yourself,” but you can be forgiven.