Struggles of the Post-Abortion Woman

Regarding our presence at 40 days for life.

Why would a post-abortion woman choose to say that our presence at 40 days for life is hurtful to her?

-- because she is hurting already and may need to point at something ‘outside’ herself to blame for her hurt as she strives to relieve, or justify, her post-abortion emotions.

-- because she is hurting already due to the fact that society let her down. When the word abortion was used ‘out there’ in society, it was just a legal term, but now, for a post-abortion woman it is personal with ramifications that the legal choice never, ever alluded to.

-- because she is hurting already having realized, as one of our Project Rachel women stated, “abortion is a lie.”

Abortion stopped the pregnancy but not her emotional attachment to her child.

-- because she is hurting already due to the fact that society has discounted her intelligence.

She knows it was a baby – a human being, she knows it was her child and yet who, in society in general, is willing to talk to her about this?

Project Rachel is.

-- because she is hurting already since her friends have told her she did the ‘right thing’, and yet she knows now, through experiencing her pain and guilt, that this is not true.

-- because she is hurting already because she has been struggling to justify how Canada can offer the legal right to choose abortion, yet, from her post-abortion experiences she realizes that abortion is not a right choice for women.

-- because she is hurting already knowing the truth - that there is no going back and undoing what was done.

because she is hurting already and may be reluctant to admit that those of us praying to end abortion are not there to remove her right to choose, but rather to encourage women to make a right choice.

-- because she is hurting already feeling she will be trapped in this hurt and pain the rest of her life.

One of our Project Rachel women from our support group in 2010 told us recently that when she would hear the word abortion before her healing, she felt like she had been punched in the stomach, but now she no longer has any fearful reaction to the abortion word. And she has named and claimed her dear baby and knows she is his mother!!

From Project Rachel
a post abortion support group
Project Rachel