Abortion Recovery Blog
Beyond Regret Living Victoriously in Christ After Abortion
by Sydna Masse | May 15, 2022
If you read or hear negative messages that call you a murderer or killer for choosing abortion, remember that you are not alone. To God, your abortion has never been a secret. He loved you then and He still loves you now.
Legacy Lost: Healing Abortion’s Heartache in Grandparents
by Sydna Masse | Oct 27, 2020
Abortion impacts every life it touches. The silent fingers of abortion pain reach into many lives and across all generational lines. Unspoken grief can encircle a family for years without abortion even being mentioned. The pain a grandparent of an aborted child can endure is like that of the mother or father.
Taming Thanksgiving Triggers After Abortion Vlog
by Sydna Masse | Nov 19, 2019
For those who have not embraced God’s healing after abortion, family meals can be a traumatic experience. Consider eating turkey while sitting next to the aunt who dragged you off to the abortion clinic? Or with the cousin who previously bragged about her two abortions?
My Abortionist’s Remains Vlog
by Sydna Masse | Nov 12, 2019
Check out my first Vlog (video blog) where I share about discovering that Ulrich George Klopfer was my abortionist. This video provides comfort for post-abortive hearts whose emotional and spiritual pain may have been triggered by media coverage of abortion. It is a perfect tool in abortion recovery ministry efforts.
My Abortionist’s Remains
by Sydna Masse | Oct 1, 2019
My abortionist was masked when he appeared at the bottom of my surgical table. I took notice of his height, voice, approximate age and color of his hair as I watched him through my legs that were loaded into stirrups.
Google’s Abortion Tyranny
by Sydna Masse | Jun 4, 2019
Last week Internet Giant, Google, BANNED pro-life pregnancy centers from buying Adwords related to the term, “abortion.” Organizations or authors of abortion recovery programs can no longer buy advertising through Google using keywords related to anything abortion.
Alyssa’s #SexStrike and Abortion’s End
by Sydna Masse | May 21, 2019
Just the media discussion of these changes indicate we are on the brink of a massive breakdown of post-abortive defense mechanisms. The biggest trigger of abortion pain will be when abortion is made illegal and they consider they may have done something wrong.
Her Choice Not to Heal After Abortion
by Sydna Masse | Nov 6, 2018
Abortion’s emotional and spiritual pain is likely one of worst forms of self-torture that exists in our world today. It binds our hearts to the anxiety and shame that someone could discover this awful truth about us and cast us out.
How Will Post-Abortive Women Vote?
by Sydna Masse | Oct 30, 2018
But what about the one third of American voting women who have chosen abortion? How will they vote? The answer often depends on the time that has passed since their abortion experience.
A Pastor’s Compassion for the Post-Abortive
by Sydna Masse | Oct 23, 2018
She walked into my office. I could tell she was nervous. When I heard her story I could tell why. She was post-abortive, she had a new boyfriend and was afraid to tell him her story.
4 Male Mindsets That Affect Abortion Decisions
by Sydna Masse | Oct 16, 2018
While men may not possess any legal rights in the abortion decision, they have more influence than they sometimes realize. That power typically depends on the strength of their relationship with the child’s mother.
Respecting an Abortion Secret
by Sydna Masse | Oct 9, 2018
The consequences for an abortion confessor can be difficult for the non-post-abortive to imagine. This level of rejection is not for the faint of heart.
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Compassionately Address a Past Abortion
When someone confesses an abortion secret, they typically are searching for help. Maybe they want to know if they did the right thing. Others test the waters to see if you will judge them.
Abolishing Abortion Strongholds
9 Ways to Help Someone After Abortion
Everyone is impacted by abortion, whether they know it or not. If you care about people who have chosen abortion, here are nine things to consider when attempting to help them.
Online Hope for Abortion’s Wounded Hearts
It was my delight to share about Ramah International’s new online abortion recovery website at HerChoicetoHeal.com. By linking her pregnancy center’s donor and client website to this free website, this center is now reaching post-abortive people in their community at a deeper level and God’s healing work is booming.
4 Stages of After Abortion Sadness
It is normal for human beings to avoid or deny sad feelings. Few actively embrace sorrow after abortion due to the fear that their tears could result in depression that could lead to suicide. We then miss the results of embracing sorrow, outlined in Psalm 126:5-6 (NIV) – Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy…
The Deadly Impact of Abortion Antagonists
A woman doesn’t make an abortion decision in a bubble. She typically enlists the insight and “wisdom” of others. Many then assume the role of abortion antagonist – a person who actively opposes or is hostile to a tiny human growing in another person’s womb.
Abortion Influencers: What A Fool Believes
Post-Abortive Women Cannot Be Researched
Silent No More: Sharing the Secret of Abortion
How Many Women Have Chosen Abortion?
Accurate statistics on the demographics of post-abortive people is nearly impossible to discover for many reasons. I cite abortion provider’s statistics simply because they are the only ones that come into direct contact with us.
Abortion Clinics Health Inspections
A Pastor’s Compassion for the Post-Abortive
She walked into my office. I could tell she was nervous. When I heard her story I could tell why. She was post-abortive, she had a new boyfriend and was afraid to tell him her story.
3 Common Mindsets After Abortion
Post-abortion healing often begins when post-abortive women take the tentative step to exit their self-imposed prisons of secrecy to reach out for help. I will never forget the day I summoned the courage to open a booklet entitled, Identifying and Overcoming Post-Abortion Syndrome.
Abortion and Sexual Abuse
Sexual trafficking ministries have long understood the connection between abortion and sexual abuse. For those caught in the web of sexual slavery, abortion is a well-used financial tool for traffickers. Those that escape that imprisonment often report multiple forced abortion experiences.
Oprah’s #ShoutYourAbortion Fallout
This abortion proud hashtag has now been tweeted over 300,000 times. Whatever the reasons for participating in this promotion, the use of this hashtag can have massive implications for the American family whose members have been lost to abortion.
A Simple Question – “Number of Pregnancies?”
I was hesitant to share my abortion secret with anyone — especially a physician. However, fear of condemnation and my own shame never over-ruled my conscience and I was normally truthful.
5 Ways to Heal Grandparent Pain After Abortion
“I feel like I’m in a grief pit with no way out and no one to talk to,” the grandparent of an aborted child painfully outlined. “I don’t even have a right to say I’m a grandmother.”
Is Abortion a Sin?
I was a Christian when I entered an abortion clinic. My boyfriend and I were both pastor’s kids. Our sexual relationship was obviously sinful but I could rationalize it because everyone was doing it. That began a habit of sin justification that led to my child’s eventual demise.
The Revenant of an Aborted Child
Revenant is defined as one that returns after death or a long absence. For many post-abortive people, being haunted by their “blob of tissue” is often unexpected.
Respecting an Abortion Secret
The consequences for an abortion confessor can be difficult for the non-post-abortive to imagine. This level of rejection is not for the faint of heart.
Taming Thanksgiving Triggers After Abortion Vlog
For those who have not embraced God’s healing after abortion, family meals can be a traumatic experience. Consider eating turkey while sitting next to the aunt who dragged you off to the abortion clinic? Or with the cousin who previously bragged about her two abortions?
Stranger at the Abortion Clinic
#MeToo and Abortion Pain
Abortion PTSD: How Do I Know I Need Healing?
Postpartum Depression After Abortion
Abortion clearly involves giving birth. It obviously involves the loss of a child. However you view the abortion issue, there is no denying that this form of voluntary child loss has a physical impact on the women that choose it.
Her Choice Not to Heal After Abortion
Abortion’s emotional and spiritual pain is likely one of worst forms of self-torture that exists in our world today. It binds our hearts to the anxiety and shame that someone could discover this awful truth about us and cast us out.
My Abortionist’s Remains Vlog
Check out my first Vlog (video blog) where I share about discovering that Ulrich George Klopfer was my abortionist. This video provides comfort for post-abortive hearts whose emotional and spiritual pain may have been triggered by media coverage of abortion. It is a perfect tool in abortion recovery ministry efforts.
Dismantling Denial After Abortion
Russian Evangelism and Post-Abortive Misery
“This is the place where we do the great evil. Will God ever forgive us?” the Russian nurse commented as she opened a large door to her hospital’s abortion area for Ramah’s visiting ministry team.
A Personal Abortion Story by Sydna Masse
Sydna Massé is a rare pro-life speaker when she shares her story of walking into an abortion clinic and losing her child. Watch this video to see how a pregnancy center could have made all the difference in her choice to abort. Sydna shares how – years later – a pregnancy center helped her find God’s healing and grace. If you are searching for a pro-life event speaker, Watch this video!
Traumatizing Tears After Abortion
Abortion Pain in the Elderly Heart
Elderly post-abortive people exist all over the world. Many often encounter no obvious regret until nearing the end of their lives. Some have found God’s peace by quietly serving others. Others have lost not only children but grand and great grandchildren as well.
Did She Tell You About Her Abortion?
Post-abortive women often spout their abortion truth in the most unlikely moments. This need for validation is intense when the initial relief period passes. Depending on the listener’s perspective, these confessions can be met with compassion, validation or rejection.
Four Biological Impacts of Abortion
The biological impact of abortion is often the least understood aspect of this choice due to the lack of scientific research. That fact alone makes research afterwards nearly impossible. Even without detailed research on post-abortive women, science has provided proof of the biological impact of abortion. There are four ways in which a woman’s body is impacted by abortion.
God’s Purpose in Abortion Pain
Legacy Lost: Healing Abortion’s Heartache in Grandparents
Abortion impacts every life it touches. The silent fingers of abortion pain reach into many lives and across all generational lines. Unspoken grief can encircle a family for years without abortion even being mentioned. The pain a grandparent of an aborted child can endure is like that of the mother or father.
Doritos Superbowl Ad Breaks Abortion Denial
Missing Women
Imagine the bus or the subway or the car that takes you to work, then erase the females commuting alongside you. Erase your wife and your daughter. Or erase yourself. Imagine this and you come close to picturing the problem.
Forgiving Abortion Enablers
Women do not get pregnant by themselves. Rarely do they end up in abortion clinics without being impacted by the opinion of others. Whether through direct or indirect involvement, abortion enablers are those who encourage, bully, intimidate, coerce or assist women in choosing abortion.
Mom and Dad, I Have Something To Tell You
Ministering to Abortion’s Wounded Hearts
God blessed our year by allowing us to minister to abortion’s wounded at a new and deeper level. Many of you have prayed for our efforts and financially donated as well. Thank you. As I reflect back on 2017, please know your support has certainly impacted every praise we are outlining in this message!
5 Types of Anger After Abortion
Anger typically surrounds women before and after their abortion. Anger assists in addressing – or covering up – typical after abortion emotions like fear, guilt, longing, frustration, or hopelessness.
Helping Your Wife Heal After Abortion
Abortions are typically decided in times of great turmoil. When women share that they had an abortion, the deep details rarely follow this truth. By sharing just the simple truth that they had an abortion, these hearts watch the listener’s reaction closely.
Abortion’s Generational Curse
When a family unit is steeped in dysfunction, sexual abuse and abortions abound. Grandmothers or mothers who aborted often encourage daughters and granddaughters to do the same. Abortion then becomes a family habit or a generational curse.
Abortion: A Special Place in Hell
The Return of Abortion’s Exiled Women
At some point, God reaches through the darkness of a woman’s self-imposed exile to call His children back into His fellowship. It is then that God rolls away the clouds from our sub-conscious and truth is presented. Memories that God resurrects cannot be pushed away easily. If they aren’t faced, God will continue to propel them into your heart.
Making Abortion Unthinkable
The number and rate of abortions tallied by federal authorities have fallen to their lowest level in decades. The abortion rate for 2013 was half the rate recorded in 1980. The CDC tallied 664,435 abortions in 2013, discovering that the abortion rate was down 20 percent from 2004.
The Post-Abortive Woman’s Vote
My first DNC call to voters required reading a script that outlined my support for “abortion.” I was shocked that simply voicing the word produced immediate anxiety in my heart. I hung up, left the precinct and never returned.
Taking Home
Our concept of “home” often depends on what we learned about this abode in the past. If home life was difficult and painful, achieving peace and love in our current circumstances can be a struggle.
5 Steps to Begin Healing After Abortion
4 Male Mindsets That Affect Abortion Decisions
While men may not possess any legal rights in the abortion decision, they have more influence than they sometimes realize. That power typically depends on the strength of their relationship with the child’s mother.
Finding the Faith to Face the Pain
When I started my abortion recovery class, I was only there because of God. Our Creator seemed to insist in so many ways that I attend. He even put the words into my mouth when I voluntarily agreed to attend as part of taking a new job.
Adele, Abortion and Motherhood
Could there be a scientific reason for the emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual pain that can result after abortion?
Paralyzing Post-Abortive Shame
After Abortion: Helping A Loved One Find God’s Healing
Realize that the post-abortive are always within listening range. Many have overheard judgmental conversations that relayed messages like, “I think any woman that chooses abortion should go to prison!”
Thanksgiving Triggers After Abortion
Immediately after abortion, many post-abortive people enjoy a period of relief. The anxiety of an unexpected pregnancy has been resolved, if only for a while. Individuals often work to forget this choice and go on with their lives. Sadly, many find that the emotional and spiritual pain of abortion can peak after being triggered, particularly during holiday events.
Abortion’s Bloodguilt: He Died for That!
The Human Face of Abortion
For most of us who made this choice, this is a secret we dare not share. If people – even loved ones – knew about our abortion decision, they would not like us, love us, or associate with us.
Good Grief: Mourning After Abortion
When Abortion is a Family Secret
When a mother does not make this choice, it’s normal for her to blame those who insisted she abort. Since she cannot divorce her family, her life can be miserable whenever she’s around those that forced her to take the life of her child.
7 Reasons Not to Abort Again
If someone walks back into an abortion clinic to abort again, they typically re-live their first abortion emotionally, spiritually, psychological, biologically and physically during the second abortion. The trauma is then often doubled or even tripled.
After Abortion: A Note to the Recently Post-Abortive Person
As someone who chose abortion in my teen years, I understand the various emotions that many post-abortive people endure afterwards. Today, tomorrow or years from now.
Forgiving Jane Roe: Abortion’s Secondary Impact
Norma McCorvey, the infamous “Jane Roe” in the Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion in America on January 22, 1973, stood next to me behind the stage at Focus on the Family. This was one of Miss McCorvey’s first speaking excursions in the pro-life realm since accepting Christ – a 700 person conference for pregnancy center workers in February of 1998.
Masculine Abortion PTSD
Abortion’s Fake News
At the time, I was offered the fake news that abortion was safe and legal. It was my right as a woman to control my body. It would even make my life better by allowing me to erase this mistake and have a do-over. They said there was plenty of time to make other choices.
Abortion, Immigration and the American Dream
Abortion’s Impact on the Elderly
One in three American women living today have potentially experienced abortion. Post-abortive individuals are at every level of society, including our nation’s elderly care units like assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
Why Didn’t God Stop Me?
Our Ministry Rocks
Judy concluded, “Put a stone in this basket and write on it the name of every life God touches through your lovely heart. This basket will serve to strengthen your ministry and encourage your heart in years to come that God is using you mightily. I’m glad that my rock is there first!”
#AbortionDistortion Abortion Regret
#ShoutYourAbortion Consequences
Forgiving Jane Roe Abortion’s Secondary Impact
“Can I have a cigarette first?” Norma McCorvey, the infamous “Jane Roe” in the Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion in America, stood next to me behind the stage. Her request outlined her apprehension of what would happen over the next five minutes.
Forgiving Myself for Aborting My Child
Alyssa’s #SexStrike and Abortion’s End
Just the media discussion of these changes indicate we are on the brink of a massive breakdown of post-abortive defense mechanisms. The biggest trigger of abortion pain will be when abortion is made illegal and they consider they may have done something wrong.
Dislodging America’s Abortion Pain
Today we stand, waiting in deeper faith than ever before, anticipating a whole new civil rights battle, designed to reduce America’s horrific involvement in the systematic destruction of the lives of our tiniest citizens. But we can’t do it alone!
What Not to Say to Post-Abortive People
Woefully Deficient Data: Why Post-Abortive Women Cannot be Defined by Current Research Methods
Imagine receiving a call from a survey company asking, “Has anyone in your home experienced abortion?”
Mom, What’s Abortion?
With the approaching battle in Congress to remove Planned Parenthood funding, parents need to be prepared to answer this question from their children. Whether you have experienced an abortion or not, educating our children about abortion’s devastation will help ENSURE they never make such a choice.
An Appeal to Post-Abortive Women
An appeal to post-abortive women who are still in search of God’s healing to begin to address this pain using Ramah International’s new website at herchoicetoheal.com.
You Never Know Who’s Listening
Missing from the mix are the voices of tens of millions who are shattered deeply by the loss of their child(ren). These hearts absorb the murderer/killer title with great shame and guilt. Locked in silent prisons of pain, they reach judgmental conclusions about themselves and believe the worst – that they have committed the unforgivable sin.
Abortion’s Anniversary Anguish
Anniversary pain can be focused on the date of the abortion or the due date of the aborted child. When these dates resurface, unknown sorrow can result. Many times there is relief in understanding that this pain has a source.
Myth #3: I’m the Only One That Feels This Way!
Don’t Give the Liberal Media Your Abortion Story!
If healing has yet to be established in their post-abortive heart, the emotional impact of compiling 250-500 words about one of the worst days of their lives can be staggering.
Intimate Abortion Involvement: The Secondary Impact of Abortion PTSD
Rarely will a woman confess to a past abortion. Even more uncommon is for involved friends or family members to bring up the topic afterwards.
Elements of Abortion PTSD: Replacing a Lost Child After Abortion
Anxiety over fertility and childbearing issues is a common element of Abortion PTSD. Some women maintain a fear that they might never again become pregnant.
Elements of Abortion PTSD: Abortion Anniversary Agony
How Will Post-Abortive Women Vote?
But what about the one third of American voting women who have chosen abortion? How will they vote? The answer often depends on the time that has passed since their abortion experience.
4 Ways to Address Holiday Pain After Abortion
Every holiday season is filled with reminiscences of celebrations with family and friends, many of whom have gone ahead of us to Heaven. Christmas celebrates God sending His own Son to Earth through a teenage unwed mother. That story, in itself, can trigger unresolved abortion pain.
10 Comforts When Family Members are Aborted
Aborted children don’t show up on a missing person’s list. Their remains aren’t in mortuaries or funeral homes. They are often unacknowledged by their parents which means the secret of their brief lives is rarely shared with others. That doesn’t mean there isn’t related grief when this truth is discovered.
Abortion’s Survivor Guilt
Abortion finds many of us at a crossroads. Individuals can easily forget the added dysfunction they endured because they chose abortion. Rarely does abortion improve a life but often it leads to other problematic behavior that impact family life.
7 Ways Siblings of Aborted Children Suffer
Sibling abortion grief is often unacknowledged and unprocessed. Many have no clue that they have an aborted brother or sister in heaven. Since abortion is typically kept secret, it can be difficult for living children to understand the source of their parent’s pain.
Healing for Abortion’s Bloodguilt
When a woman exits an abortion clinic, leaving her child behind, she is often deeply wounded. She also assumes a new title from society if they discover her abortion sin – murderer.
Myths Post-Abortive People Can Believe: #1 Abortion is Unforgivable
Post-abortive individuals often view their choice to abort as unforgivable in the eyes of God. Many also struggle in forgiving others who participated in their abortion choice.
Ramah Reviews – Living In Color: The Goal of Post-Abortion Recovery
Think of it like a brownie that has salmonella included in the recipe. Would you eat that brownie? I wouldn’t. So we have made the decision NOT to use this program at our center.
You Must Be Post-Abortive!
The requirement that, “You must be post-abortive,” astounded me. Nothing rattles me more than when abortion recovery programs openly DISCRIMINATE and REJECT God’s anointed people simply because they have never experienced abortion. As a direct result of this cliquish rule, abortion recovery efforts have diminished over the years versus increased because there simply are not enough healed post-abortive people to administer these programs nationwide.
And The Bride Wore White…
I want to invite you into one of the most private moments of my life. It was the moment my life was sliced in two, if you will. I say it was sliced into two because the person I was before this moment was drastically different from the person I quickly became for many years to come.
Justice After Abortion
5 Burdens of Abortion
Abortion impacts a woman’s body, soul and mind. The simple fact that post-abortive women rarely share this truth with others confirms that abortion often has unseen consequences.
4 Male Mindsets that Influence Abortion
A woman cannot get pregnant alone. Society often places the entire responsibility for an abortion choice on the mother who walked into the clinic. Yet for every aborted child, there is a father who may or may not have been involved in their child’s death.
The Irish Abortion Vote
Nowhere in the world is abortion more unusual than in Ireland. One of the few common elements in the South and North of Ireland is the absence of legalized abortion.
After Abortion Segregation
“She became a completely different person overnight,” the caller outlined about her daughter. “I read your blog and believe that she may have chosen abortion.” Abortion changes everything, whether the mother or father knows it or not.
Realizing Fetal Pain During Abortion
For women who have chosen abortion, the “pain-capable” point can blow their minds. Post-abortive women have often bought the lie that abortion only removes “a blob of tissue.” When you state that a “blob” may feel pain while they are being aborted, the “blob lie” fizzles.
Ongoing Grief After Abortion
God created tears to help us heal. Tears have a biological purpose in helping cleanse our bodies of toxins. There is also a whole book of the Bible on grief – Lamentations – that outlines crying is good for us, whenever it arrives.
Google’s Abortion Tyranny
Last week Internet Giant, Google, BANNED pro-life pregnancy centers from buying Adwords related to the term, “abortion.” Organizations or authors of abortion recovery programs can no longer buy advertising through Google using keywords related to anything abortion.
My Abortionist’s Remains
My abortionist was masked when he appeared at the bottom of my surgical table. I took notice of his height, voice, approximate age and color of his hair as I watched him through my legs that were loaded into stirrups.
8 Reasons Women Abort Again and Again
When God makes the reality of abortion obvious to a post-abortive soul, many feel they deserve incarceration – even the death penalty. Sadly, the worst prisons can be in our own minds.
Ramah International 2016 Ministry Update
Sydna Masse provides an update on the ministry accomplishments of Ramah International in 2016 along with plans for ministry advancement in 2017.
8 Things Not to Say to a Post-Abortive Individual
Abortion has become a common American experience. Just because we, the post-abortive, don’t talk about it doesn’t mean it’s not impacting us.
Message of Hope to Abortion’s Wounded
Our team is here to help anyone struggling after an abortion decision. Please know that there is no sin that God cannot forgive, even abortion. The problem maybe you don’t forgive yourself and may need help. The HerChoicetoHeal.com website can help you discover God’s peace and mercy so that you can process this pain in a healthy manner. Visit HerChoicetoHeal.com today!
Before Sharing the Secret of Abortion
Fighting Forgetfulness After Abortion
After abortion, women typically work to forget they ever made such a choice. If pain and grief don’t manifest themselves quickly, they can appear as a delayed reaction in years to come.
Abortion’s Haunting Impact
When the aborted child’s placenta detaches from his mother’s womb, the mother often feels this separation deep within her soul. This “emptiness” often feels haunting as an abortion experience is difficult to ignore or forget.
If She Doesn’t Know You Know
If you know a loved one who may be maintaining an abortion secret, confronting them directly about this truth may not be God’s best plan. Thankfully, there are many other ways to address an abortion secret indirectly.
The REAL War on Women
8 Common Triggers of After Abortion Pain
For those experiencing Abortion PTSD, it is normal for sights, sounds, smells and even feelings they encountered during the time of their abortion decision to ignite memories they are working to forget.
6 Impacts of Abortion on the Family
When I decided to abort, I captured the false promise that afterwards I could go on as if nothing happened. The choice seemed the best for everyone involved – particularly my family. I believed this choice would afford both myself, my present and future family several advantages.
The Ministry Fruit of An Aborted Child
We simply should never take God’s fruit as our own. If we take the personal credit for saving lives, then we also become responsible for every life lost to abortion. When God receives the full credit for lives saved, He also assumes responsibility for the lives lost to abortion.
4 Ways Abortion Wounds Women
Abortion impacts a woman’s body, soul and mind. The simple fact that she will rarely share this truth with others confirms that abortion often has unseen consequences. Abortion is also a difficult truth to harbor in a heart.
Adele, Motherhood and Abortion
The Traumatic Impact of Medication Abortion
Unlike a surgical abortion procedure, the mother will likely view a tiny human when it passes out of her uterus.
Damaging Messages #2: What Not to Say to Post-Abortive People
Eight Lies About Abortion
There are eight common lies about abortion that are being promoted by abortion advocates today. Because few women will discuss their abortion in public, these abortion falsehoods are still in place to encourage abortion decisions today.
Immediately After Abortion
As someone who chose abortion in my teen years, I understand the various emotions that many experience immediately after abortion. At that time, there were no resources to help me understand the emotions that followed that choice. My hope is that this blog can enlighten you to the common issues some may encounter immediately after an abortion decision so you can understand what you may encounter.
#1in3 Abortion’s Broken Women
Ways to Offer Indirect Post-Abortive Compassion
The Benefits of Grief
Over the years I have met a handful of women who truly did heal from this pain miraculously. I’ve never doubted anyone healing initially. God clearly can do anything He wants to do. But this “instant healing” is rare.
6 Ways Abortion Can Impact the Family
Abortion impacts everyone, whether they know it or not. It is a choice that influences not only the woman but also everyone related to them. If someone you know changes their behavior overnight – and seems to become someone else – suspect they may have chosen abortion.
Understanding Abortion’s Wounded Women
Aborting a Millennial
When A Christian Aborts
I continued, “In 2014, 24% of abortion patients were Catholic, 17% were mainline Protestant, 13% were evangelical Protestant and 8% identified with some other religion. Churched women are more likely to abort due to shame issues.”
5 Spiritual Weights of Abortion
In leaving the abortion clinic, typically one is dead and the other is wounded. It makes no difference that the abortion was a “legal” choice. The end result is the death of a living child. Because that life was voluntarily surrendered, abortion has a different impact on a woman’s heart at a spiritual level.
Abortion: Heaven’s Hope
How Washington and the Media Impact Post-Abortive Hearts
There is clear reason for alarm. The U.S. government seems adamant in expanding abortion rights at a level we never anticipated – both here and around the world.
Strategies to Tame Triggers of After Abortion Pain
Triggers of Abortion PTSD often arrive unexpectedly, activating a deep and forgotten pain. Since many post-abortive people work to forget this choice, the spark of these triggers can send them into a whirlwind of emotional anxiety.
Help Someone Who May be Post-Abortive
If you know someone who may be maintaining an abortion secret, bringing up your knowledge of their abortion directly can be wounding. A better way is to compassionately address those that have chosen abortion indirectly versus confronting them.
God’s Forgiveness After Abortion
When Abortion Recovery Video Based Programs Fail: The Unexpected “Fall Out” on Post-Abortive Hearts
While abortion recovery video based programs seem popular, I strongly urge a re-evaluation of their overall use.
Pro-Choice Abortion Recovery Programs
Pro-choice efforts to comfort those who may be upset after their abortion typically has only one goal – to reinforce that their abortion had been a GOOD choice.
Addressing Abortion Clinic Verbal Abuse
Does God Approve of Abortion?
Many faith-based hearts prayed before they aborted, asking for God to intervene if this wasn’t His will for them. These ambiguous prayers are often answered, just not in the way we expect.
The Undeniable Stigma of Abortion
Damaging Messages #1: What Not to Say to Post-Abortive People
A large percentage of women (and men) feel clear relief after an abortion because their unplanned pregnancy has been “resolved.” Many go on for decades without even thinking about that choice.
Beyond Regret Living Victoriously in Christ After Abortion
If you read or hear negative messages that call you a murderer or killer for choosing abortion, remember that you are not alone. To God, your abortion has never been a secret. He loved you then and He still loves you now.
A Novel Approach to Abortion
“Get. Out.” She slammed the door shut again and waited until his footsteps echoed off the last of the wood risers below. Crumbling to the floor, she let the sobs loose. Life had been better when she’d kept her heart on ice.
#PregnancyCenters – Walking Among Heroes
Abortion PTSD Triggers at Planned Parenthood
The Dynamics of God’s Love
Many of us who have been raised in traumatic circumstances have a hard time understanding the nature of love. “God is love.” What does that mean? I spent a great deal of my life fearing God, particularly so after my abortion.
Mile Marker 223 – South of Birmingham
The vehicle then cut across our traffic lane ahead of us and hit the right embankment very hard. As Tom pulled our car to a stop, we watched this automobile flip two times and come to a grinding thud less than 25 yards in front of us.
Stranger at the Abortion Clinic
Bright red splotches appeared over her neck revealing her obvious stress and discomfort in this dark environment. She walked like a terrified lamb, obviously ready to flee the spirit of death that encircled her heart.
I Would Have Marched in a Pink Pussy-Cat Hat
Many souls wearing pink pussy-cat hats on Saturday’s march were likely post-abortive. No one defends abortion like those who have chosen it – at least, initially. Anger is typically a necessary element of any abortion rights protests.
The Right to Remain Silent After Abortion
#1in3Speaks Increasing Abortion’s Stigma
I Never Heard From Them Again
Ramah International’s main goal is to help individuals experiencing abortion pain find God’s healing. Whether this is by talking to them directly and helping them discover God’s healing, writing blogs that answer their deepest questions, taking calls because they are pregnant again and considering abortion, or in referring them to local abortion recovery programs.
Abortion Anesthesia and Pain
Obviously, the pain women endure during an abortion varies greatly. To learn more about how abortion clinics present the anesthesia option, we recently surveyed abortion clinic websites and learned some basic truths
I Can Hear You: Called a Murderer or Killer
Does Post-Abortion Syndrome Exist?
One of the biggest battles in the abortion issue has been over whether or not post-abortion syndrome (PAS), a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as it relates to abortion, really exists among women who have made this choice.
5 Stages of Denial After Abortion
Every time the word “abortion” is overheard by a post-abortive heart, a trigger of abortion pain can be unleashed. This simple phrase rarely brings any joy to those considering its ramifications. Any one related to a post-abortive person can watch our transformation from blindness on this topic simply by watching our body language and listening to our conversation. Here are five common stages of post-abortive denial…
Truth vs. Condemnation After Abortion
Myths Post-Abortive People Can Believe: #2 Pro-lifers are my Enemy
The Health Benefits of Tears After Abortion
Abortion is an obvious death experience but few realize that truth when they make this choice. Society often communicates that if you make a choice to reject parenthood, grief is not necessary. Yet the heart often has a mind of its own where sorrow is concerned.
Remembering the Aborted: His Name is Jesse!
Dreams After Abortion
The Impact of Aborting Imperfect Humans
Many fetal abnormalities are discovered later in the pregnancy. Most are referred to the local abortion clinic for this procedure. Once there, they sit among women like myself who chose to abort for different reasons. Aborting a wanted child in such a situation bears its own form of trauma.
What’s Abortion, Mom?
When questions about abortion come out of the blue, parents are often unprepared for these deeper queries from their young children.
Discovering Amazing Faith in the Midst of Life’s Storms
This past summer our family was forced to file for personal bankruptcy. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill may be a memory to most of you but we will always remember it as the tool God used to move us out of Florida.
8 Forms of Childhood Strife That Impact Abortion
Family histories that include abortion often contain many other traumatic events. Unplanned pregnancy often results during deep family strife as one generation significantly impacts another. These strife cycles cascade down the family line often ending in a generational circle of discord. Since one generation clearly impacts another, abortion decisions are often repeated down a family line.
Pregnancy Center Training Seminar 2012
4 Costs of Sharing an Abortion Secret
Today there are active efforts by pro-choice and pro-life groups to encourage women to share their abortion stories. Twitter campaigns like #shoutyourabortion and #1in3 are designed to NORMALIZE an abortion experience and reduce any related stigma. Sadly, in sharing this tale prior to God’s healing, more trauma can result for everyone involved.
Abortion’s Sinful Women
#PPShooting – Rescue at Planned Parenthood
5 Ways Siblings of Aborted Children Suffer
Abortion changes everything. In leaving an abortion clinic, one is dead while the mother is typically wounded in some way. Initially, family members endure the brunt of the emotional, spiritual and psychological fall out. Many have no idea an abortion has occurred.
Pregnancy Scare!
Abortion is completely hypothetical until you find yourself in a potential unexpected pregnancy. A pregnancy scare can lead anyone to consider the abortion option. However, when those individuals who considered themselves “pro-life” actually abort, their pain afterwards can be greatly intensified because they knew better.
Why Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption
Just reading the word “adoption” filled me with fear of the long-term pain associated with never knowing what happened to my child. Envisioning my baby being ripped from my arms and given to strangers was too much to consider. Abortion seemed far easier in my teenage logic.
4 Ways To Relieve Christmas Pain After Abortion
During Christmas, many discover that their emotional and spiritual pain related to an abortion choice can peak, robbing them of any seasonal joy.
Abortion In our Midst: Helping Post-Abortive Individuals Discover God’s Healing
One third of all American women are post-abortive. You encounter us – in supermarkets, teaching your children, running day care centers, and at the top levels of corporations.