Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

You've heard about Project Rachel; have you heard of Project Joseph? Here's how the Church is helping heal the damage done by abortion.

by JENNIFER BRINKER (CNS) 02/01/2011 Comments (4)

Members of the group "Silent No More" awareness campaign participate in the March for Life in Washington Jan. 24 carrying signs about regret many women say they feel after having an abortion. The annual pro-life demonstration marks the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion across the nation.

ST. LOUIS (CNS) — Maria Thompson was a teenager when she became pregnant. The 18-year-old was living in Mexico City. The father, 11 years older than her, didn’t want anything to do with the baby.

Her parents, as she recalled, “would not tolerate any deviation.” So when they found out she was pregnant, “I had no place to go.”

The year was 1973. Abortion was legal in Mexico, and the father of her child sent her to have an abortion. At that time, abortions were performed in the home of the doctor, Thompson recalled.

For the first several months after the abortion, Thompson said it was “very difficult for me to see a baby.” She supported a woman’s choice to have an abortion, noting “it was the thing to do.”

It wasn’t until later that she realized “it was nothing but to cover the pain and anguish” of her own abortion. She also considered suicide.

Years later, Thompson married and had a child. She later became pregnant again, but lost that child through a miscarriage, an experience she said was sent to her by God.

“The child I lost in a miscarriage was the same age of the aborted child,” she recalled in an interview with The Review, newspaper of the St. Louis Archdiocese. “That’s when life really became worse for me. I realized what had been bothering me.”

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