Starr Rogers was in her third trimester when the lady looked her square in the face and said it. “Go back to Alabama and have your baby.” She didn’t see that coming.
Rogers had already had four abortions and clinic employees had always been more than willing to facilitate her choice.
But something different happened that day in Atlanta, she said — God intervened.
“When you go into these places (abortion clinics) all they want to do is get you in and get your money,” she said.
‘Don’t do this’
But when they sent Rogers in to talk with a clinic employee about the procedure, “she told me all the things that they would do with my baby. She even showed me where they put the babies after they were aborted,” Rogers said. “She told me, ‘Don’t do this.’” Rogers started to cry. She didn’t want to do it. She said so.
And the clinic employee hugged her and told her to go home. “So that’s what I did,” Rogers said. “And I had a son.”
It was the beginning of God redeeming a path of pain and brokenness that had started when Rogers was just a teenager growing up in Eclectic.
“At age 16, I was married. A few years later I became involved with a married man,” she said. “We had an affair that produced a daughter, whom I passed off as my husband’s child.” The affair lasted 10 years — and brought four more pregnancies.
“All four times I aborted them,” Rogers said.
And when her marriage dissolved and she married the father of her children, she became pregnant a sixth time.
“Like the other times, he pitched a fit and demanded of me that I get rid of this pregnancy too,” Rogers said. “So I traveled to Atlanta. I was in my third trimester and Alabama wouldn’t allow an abortion that far along.”
It was there she got the unexpected advice that saved her son’s life.
But it would still be a while before she got the intervention that would save her own.
“I knew something was wrong with me,” Rogers said. “I couldn’t be at peace. There was a constant churning inside of me all the time.”
The anger and her broken heart were unbearable, she said. She tried to numb the pain with more extramarital affairs, but they didn’t satisfy her.
Writing letters
She began to plan her suicide.
“I wrote letters to each one of my children about how sorry I was for committing suicide and that I loved them, but I just couldn’t take the pain anymore,” Rogers said.
But God had a different plan — one of love and forgiveness, she said.
One day at the library, Rogers picked up a local Christian magazine and saw an ad that asked, “Do you need healing from your abortions?”
She called the phone number.
And that started her on the road that changed everything, she said. “God alone can take you in His arms and wipe all the stains away,” she said.
In the years that followed, Rogers grew in her faith and had two more children — another daughter and son. She has traveled frequently, speaking to women through radio and TV stations, extending to them the same hope that met her in her moment of need.
“I want to help other women going through post abortion like I was,” she said.
She urges women to get involved in a Bible-based post-abortion study “so that they could come to know that Jesus is the only One that can set them free from this torment.”
It’s a message that saved her life, Rogers said.
“I am healed and able to forgive myself for murdering my children. I came to know our sweet, precious Savior and learned how amazing it is that He shed His blood for us.”
To contact Rogers, email starrkayrogers@gmail.com. (TAB)
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