A few weeks ago, I was talking with a woman who had an abortion years ago. Afterward, she came to Christ, and she has counseled hundreds of post-abortive women in the years since.

“There’s a familiar refrain of ‘I can’t forgive myself,’” she told me. “Technically, self-forgiveness is not biblical. But that’s hard to translate to a woman who feels guilty about her abortion.”

Last week, TGC’s Kendra Dahl wrote a helpful piece tenderly addressing those who feel the burden of “I can’t forgive myself.”

“Every time I share my abortion story, people reach out to share theirs,” she wrote. Often they tell her the same thing—if there is an unforgiveable sin, surely it’s abortion?

Kendra shares four reasons why women who have had abortions may especially feel the sting of unrelenting guilt. Then she points to the only answer any of us have to any of our sins: “Our sin is great, but Christ’s blood is greater.”