Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
By J. Kevin Burke When is a woman “ready” to seek the deeper healing of her abortion pain? When is it too soon? Are post-abortion healing programs “too intense” for women in the first weeks and months after abortion? In working with post-abortive women, one meets many women who are in an emotionally fragile state. […]
Study Reveals Abortion Leads to Feelings of Distress A survey of patients at a New York state abortion clinic found widespread feelings of emotional distress among women who have had abortions. The survey of 212 patients was conducted at Southern Tier Women’s Services in upstate New York over a period of four weeks. The results […]
Vicki Thorn In the last few years, a radical shift has happened in the ministry of post-abortion healing. For many years, the average woman who came for help was five to ten years post-abortive and was between the ages of 25 and 35. Now contact is often made by women who are only months, days, […]
A Bittersweet Healing Case Study – “Jane” It may be hard for some to believe, but it is comforting for me to know that Moses, King David, and St. Paul all started out as murderers. You can call me Jane. That’s not my real name. Extreme shame keeps me anonymous. I had an abortion when […]
Volume 11, Number 1, January-March 2003 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Traumatic Grief and Post-Abortion Trauma A New Diagnosis for Those Struggling After Abortion Dr. Pravin Thevathasan Research Links Abortion and Substance Abuse During Pregnancy A Healing Model for Newly Aborted Women Vicki Thorn Is It Ever “Too Soon” for Post-Abortion Healing? J. Kevin Burke […]