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Support After Abortion: Acknowledge abortion as pregnancy loss this month
NORTH PORT, FL–As the 36th Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month begins October 1, the research and education group Support After Abortion is urging the mental health community to recognize that pregnancy loss also includes abortion loss. “Nearly one million women...
One Grandmother’s Story of Abortion: The Ripple Effect of Abortion
That sunny, summer Sunday began with joy, hope, and excitement for Linda and her family. It ended with anguish, devastation, and wounded relationships. The pain was one they never anticipated would happen in their family. The light at the end of their dark tunnel came...
How Abortion May Impact Grandparents
Every abortion experience is unique to the people involved - the reasons that led to the termination, the emotions of the woman and man involved, who they tell or don’t tell, and the response and emotions of their family, friends, and others. We refer to this last...
The Intersection of Generational Trauma and Abortion
Just like passing down the hurt, we can pass down the healing, and help prevent future pain. Oh wow, that was just like my mom (or dad)! We often hear our parents echoed in our words, thoughts, and behaviors. It might be a phrase we say, a focus on good grades, or a...
The missing seat at mother’s day brunch – how to navigate it
Mother’s Day can be an emotionally packed day for women who have experienced reproductive loss, especially abortion. The celebratory messages are everywhere and can affect women in their families, while shopping, and even at church. Read our latest blog sharing stories from women walking this journey and relating them to the three stages of change: avoidance, acceptance, and action. It also offers tips for how friends, loved ones, and church leaders can show love and compassion for the women in their lives who are navigating Mother’s Day after experiencing reproductive loss, especially abortion.
This is the Year for Healing After Abortion
In a recent conversation on our AFTER ABORTION LINE, an international hotline women and men contact for support after abortion experience(s), a woman shared the shame and loneliness she felt in having told her friends she had a miscarriage when she actually had an...
Healing As Prevention Stronger Together
with Pam Stenzel
Pam Stenzel has been involved and working within the Pro-Life movement for many years. She began volunteering and now serves as a Director of five pregnancy centers and two mobile units in Florida. While working in the pregnancy center, Pam felt called to speak about...
How the Church Can be an Agent For Abortion Healing
with Father Shawn Monahan
Fr. Monahan calls the battle we face today, a culture of life vs. a culture of death. He then challenges us to be a culture of life, by finding our COMPASSIONATE voice again. Shame and condemnation make healing tough, if not impossible, but being with someone in their...
Men and Abortion
with Nathan Misirian
Nathan Misirian, COO of Support After Abortion, dicusses the need to increase resources made available to men that are impacted by abortion. Together with Adam Fransden and Greg Hasek, they discuss why men are afraid, and what specific needs men have to heal and begin...
Pro-Love and Get Involved
with Amy Ford
Amy Ford is the president of Embrace Grace, Inc., a non-profit organization formed for the purpose of providing curriculum and leadership support for churches so that they may support women and men with unplanned pregnancies. Amy states, “If abortion became illegal...