by afladmin | Feb 10, 2020 | After Abortion Care
After the national marches in January, people in the Church tend to be invigorated for Life. They often ask us, “What can I do about it?” Sometimes taking action for Life means stepping out of your comfort zone. But sometimes even a simple or easy idea can make a...
by afladmin | Apr 16, 2019 | After Abortion Care
Each month we will offer a list of action ideas so you can defend, honor, and celebrate Life in your churches and communities on our Take Action page. This month, we are looking at after abortion care. 1 in 4 women have an abortion by age 45—and some of them are in...
by afladmin | Jan 28, 2019 | Abortion, After Abortion Care
I’m rarely speechless, but I must admit the news of the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) being passed and instantly signed by Governor Cuomo in New York left me without words. But I was apparently among the few who couldn’t find the words to express my dismay, as I woke...
by afladmin | Jan 15, 2019 | After Abortion Care
What possessed me to open the seemingly secure, safe, and dark room where I kept my feelings and the identity of our son who I aborted in 1974? In the past whenever I tried to take a light into that room it made me agitated and angry. There was love in that room mixed...
by afladmin | Nov 26, 2018 | After Abortion Care
I recently attended a mass in which the priest focused on “hope.” He spoke of hope being rooted in reality and that it is not a wishing like earthly hope, but a knowing. It is a knowing hope because of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. In...
by afladmin | Nov 12, 2018 | After Abortion Care
My husband and I attend our local pro-life pregnancy center’s banquet every year. In November 2015, we were sitting at a table in the far corner of the room. It didn’t give us a great view of the speaker, who happened to be former Planned Parenthood director Abby...