If God can forgive us, why can’t we forgive ourselves? by Lin Russell* The summer after I’d graduated from high school, I realized I was pregnant by my on-and-off-again boyfriend of the previous three years. The doctor advised me to quickly schedule an abortion because I’d already missed two periods. I chose to believe…
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The Long Path-Resources
Silent No More (silentnomoreawareness.org) is an international organization that holds events, provides local support groups, and offers articles and testimonies for encouragement and education. Any search engine brings up multitudes of websites sharing information for the person struggling with post-abortion issues. Many communities have pregnancy counseling centers that offer classes for abortion recovery. The…
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Many women who have had abortions anonymously post their regrets online, often years later — like one who named her aborted baby Faith because the mother “needed faith that [the baby] had gone to a better place.” A Google search revealed 5,880,000 results to the phrase “abortion regret” (as of December 18, 2012). Another…
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