The Start of Healing

Abortion is never a healing process. It's not something you can stuff in the back of your head and forget about. You may be able to "get away with it" for a few years but it's a ticking time bomb. Some day it will hit. Maybe not today, not tomorrow, maybe not even ten years down the road but it will hit.

I talked to a girl the other day who came in wanting to parent. I started talking to her about women's health and started to show her a short non-graphic film on abortion procedures and risks. She asked me to pause it right after the film started. I stopped and asked what was the matter. She started to explain how she knew about abortion because she had one before. She started crying and told me the whole story.

She kept telling me that she was over it but her crying and expression said the exact opposite. We gave her information about free post-abortion counseling. I really hope she tries it - if a woman has had an abortion she needs to talk about it. She needs to cry and let the emotions out.

That is the start of healing.

*Rachel's Vineyard is a great resource for post-abortive counseling and healing.