Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

a repost (from July 2012)…

I must admit, sometimes in this abortion debate I feel like I am
floating on the periphery, looking on, while the world dissects and
argues about abortion, and concerning the unborn and the women who have
them.

For me, as a post-abortive mother, it is much more personal. It is about reclaiming my child.

It is about relationships, family, and my son, who is now “living in the Lord” (Gospel of Life, JPII).

At seventeen years old, I hid my pregnancy from my parents for over
four months. When I finally told them, I was asked to leave the house
and forget that I was their daughter. Coming from a Catholic family, it
was the one scenario I had not played out in my head.

Staying temporarily at a friend’s, the pressures to abort began: I
fought with the baby’s father, and my own father began having my sister
call me telling me to have an abortion. With no job, no money and no
place go, in the end, I gave in to his demands — like many other women,
it was not because of free choice, it was because I felt I had no
choice.

The trauma of that day is still vivid in my mind, with no one telling
me the development of my son or anything about the procedure I was
about to undergo. I had
a saline abortion in a hospital room by myself. After many hours of
labor, I gave birth to a dead baby boy. To this day over thirty-five
years later, I can still see him clearly and remember thinking, “How can
this be legal?”, but it is.

I know some people reading this will say I have no right to claim my
son having aborted him, and, they are right. I am a sinner deserving of
nothing but eternal damnation. But, thank God, His ways are not our
ways.

God desires for those of us who are post abortive to reclaim our
children, because it is in doing so that I have found His peace. He gave
my son to me. I may have rejected this wonderful gift of life, but it
is STILL His desire that I claim my son. He is the God of second
chances, and third chances, and on, and on, and on.

the rest is here:http://catholicexchange.com/reclaiming-our-children/