Healing - Post Abortion Services
Living in darkness and depression after an abortion? Unable to get past the pain of your loss?
There is hope. There is healing. There is a way out of your pain. You can find acceptance, healing and unconditional love in a safe confidential environment.
There are literally millions of women and men who, alone and abandoned, suffer some of the most serious psychological and spiritual consequences of abortion. If you are one of these many, we understand and are here to help.
These organizations provide healing services to men and women who have suffered abortion.
There is hope. There is healing. There is a way out of your pain. You can find acceptance, healing and unconditional love in a safe confidential environment.
There are literally millions of women and men who, alone and abandoned, suffer some of the most serious psychological and spiritual consequences of abortion. If you are one of these many, we understand and are here to help.
These organizations provide healing services to men and women who have suffered abortion.
Sisters of Life
Sisters of Life provide day/weekend retreats, & f/u gatherings.
Toll free: 866.575.0075 or
hopeandhealing@sistersoflife.org
http://www.sistersoflife.org/hope-and-healing-after-abortion
Sisters of Life provide day/weekend retreats, & f/u gatherings.
Toll free: 866.575.0075 or
hopeandhealing@sistersoflife.org
http://www.sistersoflife.org/hope-and-healing-after-abortion
Lumina
A ray of light in abortion's darkness
(718) 881-8008 or (877) 586-4621
www.postabortionhelp.org
Contact Theresa Bonapartis for more information. Lumina provides referrals for peer group support, post–abortion ministers & clergy, professional counselors.
Project Rachel
There is hope after abortion
888-456-HOPE (4673)
http://hopeafterabortion.com/
Project Rachel – www.hopeafterabortion.org
Project Rachel, the Catholic Church's ministry to those who have been involved in abortion, is a diocesan-based network of specially trained priests, religious, counselors, and laypersons.
Rachel’s Vineyard – www.rachelsvineyard.org
Hope Alive – www.messengers2.com
Ramah International – www.ramahinternational.org
Healing Hearts – www.web-light.com/heart
P.A.C.E (Post Abortion Counseling and Education) – 800/395-HELP
A ray of light in abortion's darkness
(718) 881-8008 or (877) 586-4621
www.postabortionhelp.org
Contact Theresa Bonapartis for more information. Lumina provides referrals for peer group support, post–abortion ministers & clergy, professional counselors.
Project Rachel
There is hope after abortion
888-456-HOPE (4673)
http://hopeafterabortion.com/
Project Rachel – www.hopeafterabortion.org
Project Rachel, the Catholic Church's ministry to those who have been involved in abortion, is a diocesan-based network of specially trained priests, religious, counselors, and laypersons.
Rachel’s Vineyard – www.rachelsvineyard.org
Hope Alive – www.messengers2.com
Ramah International – www.ramahinternational.org
Healing Hearts – www.web-light.com/heart
P.A.C.E (Post Abortion Counseling and Education) – 800/395-HELP
How to Speak to Post-Abortive Men & Women
Here are some suggestions about how to speak to someone who has had an abortion from the USCCB website:
What to Say
What to Say
- Ask how she is
- Show care and concern
- Listen
- Say you are sorry she felt she had to do this
- Allow her to talk
- Allow her to express anger regret and remorse
- Watch her for isolation
- Allow her to grieve
- Keep her confidentiality
- Be there for her
- “Forget about it; it is in the past, move on”
- “You did what was best at the time” (she knows this is not true)
- “Abortion is wrong” (she knows this too)
- “You can have other children” (this does not make up for baby she aborted)
- “It was not a baby yet”
- Don’t tell he how she should feel
- Don’t try to find a positive
- “It was your decision”
- “You should be over this by now”
- Don’t say you understand if you don’t
- Don’t tell her she was not ready to have a child
- “It is for the best”
- “You will get over this”
- “At least you only had one” (how do you know?