Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Today I went to pray at the Planned Parenthood in Newburgh, NY, with Bishop Peter Byrne and the CFR’s. I had seen the announcement online and for some reason felt especially called to go even though it was over an hour away.

Since I work with abortion all the time, I rarely go to extra things on weekends, although I am always glad when I participate in praying at the clinics…it is a standing at Calvary.

Today, I was particularly struck by one car in the lot. It was a man and his young daughter, perhaps around the age of my granddaughter, waiting in the car as his wife was in the clinic. As we prayed the mysteries of the rosary this little girl just tilted her head out the window and watched us. We locked gazes many times as I offered up many of my prayers for her and her family.

For around nine years now, Entering Canaan has been, with the help of the CFR’S and a wonderful sibling who works with us, been offering retreats for siblings of aborted babies. This is a deep wound shared by countless numbers of people leading to many questions, grief, loss of self worth, guilt for being alive and a host of other things.

As I gazed at the girl in the window of the car I could not help but wonder, if she will remember the day she waited outside Planned Parenthood while her sibling was dying?

I think all too often we forget the wide spread impact just one abortion has on our society. We forget about the wounds that are leaking everywhere because of abortion. We are blind to the souls suffering.

Today, I have no doubt Our Lady brought me to Planned Parenthood in Newburgh to pray for that little girl and for her family.