{"id":233469,"date":"2020-10-30T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233469"},"modified":"2020-10-30T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:49:49","slug":"faith-abortion-trauma-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/faith-abortion-trauma-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"A non-faith based approach to helping women heal from abortion trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to Support After Abortion<\/a>,\u00a0the results of commissioned consumer research suggest that nine out of 10 women don’t know where to go for abortion healing, and that while roughly three quarters (74%)\u00a0 of women seeking abortion healing have some type of religious affiliation,\u00a0 73% of those same women do not regularly attend religious services.<\/em>\u00a0Given this, Support After Abortion proposes that starting with a non-faith-based approach<\/a> to abortion healing can effectively help women.<\/p>\n

“By unaided natural reason, we can determine that human life has intrinsic value and that therefore the taking of innocent human life is wrong,” said Natalia Juzyn, S.T.L. “Thus the natural consequences of deliberate killing of innocent human life are to be expected. Healing on the level of nature may be the best possible preparation for receiving the more profound spiritual healing offered in sanctifying grace. In order to receive that grace, however, one must first come to faith.”<\/p>\n

Practically speaking, starting on “a natural level” looks like addressing the emotional, psychological, and perhaps physical fallout a woman may be experiencing in her life, and then helping her tie that back to her abortion experience(s) in order to begin processing the grief, loss, shame, and trauma, as well as the life circumstances that led her to abortion.<\/p>\n

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