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10/20/16 This is part of a series on telling your children about a past abortion. Visit here for the previous posts in this series: To Tell or Not to Tell? and Finding Healing. Talking to your child about a past abortion can be very hard. If you are thinking about whether or not to do […]
10/11/16 This is part II of a series on telling your children about a past abortion. For Part I, “To Tell or Not to Tell,” click here. The Importance of Healing Another important thing for parents to consider is how much healing they themselves have experienced, said post-abortion counselor Trudy Johnson, who also went through […]
10/6/16 Theresa Bonopartis, founder of Lumina post-abortion healing ministry, vividly remembers the day that she phoned her doctor for the results of her pregnancy test. She was 18, unmarried, and scared. The doctor’s words confirmed what, despite months of denial, she already knew–she was almost four months pregnant. She and her boyfriend decided to marry. […]
10/6/16 In a 2006 book, a pro-choice counselor shared: I worked with adult men and women who had been abusing alcohol and drugs and coping with mental illness for the majority of their lives.… One of the key reasons people continue to abuse their bodies is because of some level of self hatred. Somewhere along […]
10/3/16 Christina Marie Bennet, a pregnancy resource center counselor, wrote an open letter to a Harvard student who wrote about her abortion experience: Dear Pregnant at Harvard Student, I read the anonymous letter you submitted to your school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, sharing your personal abortion story. I wish I knew your name. I wish that […]
