“I would like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even…
“Lumina’s Entering Canaan men’s retreat enabled me to confront the reality of what I had done many years ago. At the end of the retreat, the facts had not changed, but I had. A recurring nightmare of more than 30 years, in which the…
“I probably would not even be here if you did not have that abortion.” Those are sentiments expressed by many siblings of aborted babies, sentiments that bring up a host of feelings. Guilt for being alive, yet gratitude for the gift of life. Love…
I do not know for sure, but if I had to bet, I would pretty safely guess that in addition to being a mom who has had an abortion I also have aborted siblings. Of course, there is no way for me to confirm…
Healing the wound of abortion has been, in many ways, the central spiritual task of my life. The conviction that my youngest sibling was a living, beloved human being would not let me go – even in my adolescence and college years, when I…