Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Interesting…comment to come The Abortion Counseling Conundrum
Pro-choice activists have come to embrace the idea that many women who’ve had abortions can benefit from non-ideological counseling. So why are the groups that provide such counseling having so much trouble raising money?
Dana Goldstein | June 30, 2008 | web only

“I had a previous abortion at
age 21, and it wasn’t this hard. It didn’t seem like a ‘baby’ to me at
that age. But after raising two children I know now that I really did
lose a living being inside me.” – An anonymous participant in Emerge, a pro-choice support group for women who’ve had abortions

Those sentiments would raise the eyebrows of many a pro-choice
activist. After all, the feminist movement is built upon the
cornerstone of women controlling their reproductive destinies — on the
imperative of valuing women’s lives over the potential for life
represented by a pregnancy. In the past, that often meant not talking
at all about post-abortive women’s feelings about the fetus.

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