Two articles, the first written by a clergy member:
Clergy Back abortion care in any Health Care
reform
And my response. As is often the case, much of it was left out and so I am posting the link and the original article. I found it interesting a lot of the responses online take the opportunity to bash the Catholic faith which was never mentioned in the article. In fact, many of the women who have taken part in our work are Jewish, Muslim and other denominations.
The other lie that is apparent in the responses is that we instill "guilt". I think any one of the women who have come to us can quickly attest to the fact that this is far from true. Like I state in the article, the lies can keep on coming but we stand in truth and no one can take that away from us.
Clergy who suppport abortion aren't helping
women
Clergy are Doing women No Favors By
Supporting Abortion
I am a post
abortive woman who has been working with other women suffering from a past
abortion for almost twenty years. In this day and age, everyone knows someone
who has had an abortion, and, if most people were honest, they would admit they
know the suffering e gone through as a result of that “choice”.
With all the
hype in the news today with health care reform, the public is once again being
fed the lies of abortion. The lie that all women freely choose to abort,
instead of the truth that they are very often coerced by boyfriends, parents
and husbands, or even pressured by careers or the desire to finish school, or the
big lie that abortion is a simple and safe procedure and that it does not cause
psychological, or physical problems (tell that to the hundreds of people I hear
from each year).
Perhaps the
biggest deception and lie however, is the ‘support” of clergy. Clergy who women
trust to lead them spiritually . There is nothing more devastating than to come
out of the trauma of abortion to recognize the evil of having participated in
the death of your child with clergy person there to “baptize” and sometimes bury
your dead baby (Tiller did this all the time. Nothing so terrible as to have a
“clergy” person next you while your child is being aborted, telling you, “God
and understands and forgives you”. Yes, God can understand why we abort and He
certainly can forgive, but that does not mean it is right or that we are not
going to suffering greatly for our actions.
The most heart
wrenching stories I have heard over the years are from those in all
denominations who went to their clergy for guidance and were told it was ok to
abort, only to find out that taking the life of your child is never ok. Imagine, having your aborted baby buried as
if it had died naturally.
Perhaps this
statement by one of the women in our ministry says it best, “Burying my daughter was a shameful
experience. I felt dishonest. I perceived myself as a phony, a
fake. While I appreciated each and every kind gesture, I felt
unworthy of such sentiments. I kept thinking, “Are these people crazy, I killed
my baby!” When I wasn’t chastising myself, I would try to allow all the
good wishes and sentiments of others legitimize what I had done. I could
fool myself for a while, but not forever. I lived with that guilt and
shame for a long time. “
Women from all
nationalities, races and religion come to us because of the devastation of
abortion and are angry and outraged with the clergy who made it seem like what
they were doing was right. Many go back to confront them r. Unfortunately,
there are not too many post abortive women who speak out publically”, and even
those of us who do, often are blacked out in the media. But this is changing as
personal experiences are bringing the truth to light. A big reason, I believe
the tides of abortion are changing.
Clergy in
support of abortion? They are not doing women any favors.
Theresa Bonopartis
Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion 
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