Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Found this article by Kim Jeffries Ketola on the importance of the church reaching out to those who are post abortive on the blog "Cradle My Heart".

On  of the ways we have had more clergy become involved is by giving them the book "The Jericho Plan" by Dave Reardon. It is a wonderful book that truly brings a greater understanding and even has sermon suggestions.  A great present for any clergy member!

I have not read Kim's book but plan to get a copy. In the meantime I am glad to have found her blog.

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I wasn’t trying to probe into anyone’s past or coax out a confession.

In fact, I was so new to this church that I was reluctant to share
something so personal. Yet, when I disclosed an abortion in my past, I
heard from several other women in our thirty-member Bible study group
who had also lost a child to abortion. Perhaps these women were relieved
to hear someone, anyone, bring up the subject at church. Maybe I just
seem like a safe person since I mentioned having written a book about
spiritual recovery after abortion. But each one eagerly shared her
secret with me that day.

And each story was as different as the woman who told it.

During prayer time one sought me out to whisper through tears. She
had no memory of the father—after a drunken one-night stand she couldn’t
even recall his name. But she vividly recalled feeling hustled in the
aftershock of a positive pregnancy test by the high-pressure sales
tactics at the abortion clinic.

the rest is here: http://cradlemyheart.org/2012/09/12/listening-to-abortion-what-helpswhat-hurts/comment-page-1/#comment-99