Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

So, I just found out that January 22nd is NARAL's "Blog for Choice Day"

http://inastrangeland.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/friday-is-blog-for-choice-day/

The theme for the day, In honor of George Tiller, is “Trust Women”, named after a button that Tiller often wore. This year’s Blog for Choice Day question is: What does Trust Women mean to you? So, I signed up at NARAL and decided to participate by answering the question, although I doubt NARAL will include me even though I have registered.

What does Trust Women mean to you?

"Trust women"  means that boyfriends, husbands, parents etc, should not coerce women to abort their babies. They shouldn't threaten to leave them if they chose life, or kick them out of the house, or abandon them.

"Trust women" means that when women state they have post abortion stress and suffer from their  abortions they should be believed. Their pain, shame, guilt and grief,  should be acknowledged instead of denied. They should not be told there is no such thing as post abortion stress, leaving them feeling crazy and alone, or that their feelings are there because of other factors like a poor relationship. The pain of abortion is not only real it is normal. No woman can take the life of her own child without a negative impact sooner or later. It may be denied for a while, even years, but one day it will have to be dealt with.

"Trust women" means that the beautiful gift of bringing life into the world was  given to them by God and that it is against all that they are to kill their own children.

Lastly,"Trust Women" means we are able make decisions for ourselves. That
we can trust our gut instincts and know that we are right. This has not
been the case with my experience with abortion both on a personal and
professional level. Women have been anything but "trusted", even with
Dr Tiller who they chose to honor. "Make money" would have been a better theme for him.

I have worked with couples who went to Tiller after an adverse pre natal diagnosis. He worked very
hard  trying to make the horrific slaughter of their unborn children
seen normal even  dressing up their dead babies, placing them in
their arms for pictures and baptizing them. These couples have suffered so much at his hands..not only the loss of their babies but in trying to unravel his cunning message of normalcy for an act that is anything but normal.
While I abhor his murder, I also abhor the many acts of killing of the
unborn he so proudly proclaimed in the name of woman. Not the ones I
know!

So NARAL, there are just a very few of my thoughts, and since you asked us to post a picture too, here is mine: