This project, which explores the question, “How can the wisdom and experience of Christian women who have had abortions offer new theological and moral insight into abortion for Christian communities?” is based on interviews with 135 Protestant Christian women who had abortions in the South and Midwest in the last twelve months. Grounded in the lived experience of Christian women having abortions, their stories challenge dominant stereotypes that women who have abortions are callous, selfish, and irresponsible in their decisions to end pregnancies; instead reflecting the seriousness, love, compassion, and thoughtfulness that shape Protestant Christian women’s decision-making about their pregnancies. These women demonstrate not only the complexity of their circumstances that include poverty, domestic violence, mental health struggles, rape, and physical conditions incompatible with pregnancy, but also their robust understanding of the importance of mothering. Respect for healthy families and good parenting manifests in several ways – to be able to care well for the children they already have; to wait to have children when they are able to be a good parent; and for some, the recognition that they would not be a good parent. The book will expand public thinking about abortion and religion by 1) documenting the complexity of religious beliefs about abortion in Protestant Christianity; 2) demonstrating the role of religion as a site of ethical decision-making and the value of religion as a source for meaning-making in people’s lives as they navigate complex and challenging situations; 3) challenging understandings of religion as doctrine by presenting experiences of lived religion that reflect the dynamic relationship people have with their faith; and 4) offering new theological insights into parenting as a sacred task and motherhood as moral choice, while exploring how abortion can be understood as blessing or an act of grace.