Archive for the ‘ARCH’ Category
How Long Does An Abortion Last?
“I have a ‘no-regret’ policy when it comes to the way I live, but I cannot seem to shake the regret of my abortion. I have regretted it since before it even happened, but I know other women who have gone years before regret eventually came knocking. Trust me when I say this: Regret will […]
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In amongst the chaos, pain and destruction that abortion brings lies the women who have had abortions. Here at the Initiative Sr Andrea runs the Rachels Vineyard Retreats for women, men, grandparents – anyone affected by abortion. So we were very interested in the short film made by an American, Peter Baklinski who has felt […]
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Hearing The Pain of Abortion
Here is a moving story to remind us that there is so much unseen pain behind womens’ abortions. its-gonna-be-worth-it-all
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Repeat Abortions
Here’s a good article abortion-can-kick-start-vicious-cycle-of-repeat-pregnancies-abortions-uk-ex featuring a friend of the Initiatives’, Margaret Cuthill of ARCH (Abortion Recovery Care and Helpline) following up last weeks’ news of abortion statistics and news of some womens’ repeat abortions. She links the repeat abortions to the trauma following the initial abortion and not just contraception failure.
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Sometimes in the midst of fighting for life it is useful to have reassurance and words of wisdom to keep us focussed and inspired and Pope Benedict does this beautifully in his address recently to the Pontifical Academy for Life which can be accessed at pope-benedicts-address-to-the-pontifical-academy-for-life-assembly-on-infer and is well worth a read. Indeed it is a duty of the moral […]
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Is The Pain Not Enough?
Katie Spicers’ pain is quite clear throughout her article “I’m Childless at 42 and Haunted by the baby I aborted at 18″. We read of the circumstances that led her to abort her 9week old unborn baby and her life since. Im-childless-42-haunted-baby-I-aborted-18.html She writes movingly. From a prolife point of view one hopes that the article will […]
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The Letter
John Smeaton, the Director of SPUC publicised on his blog, a film by a young student film maker, Caitlin McInnis this week who has made a film out a letter written by a woman http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/who had an abortion 10years previously. It is amazing to hear the powerful words expressed by the writer who hasn’t written it […]
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Silent No More
Another powerful witness from a father,http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/video/video.aspx?testimonyid=5253
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The Pressure to have an Abortion
It is always a powerful witness to hear women who have had an abortion tell their story. We can understand and show compassion to the different pressures that lead a woman to let her unborn child be killed which is against nature. We need to always remember this when talking to anyone about abortion so […]
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Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat
A Rachel’s Vineyard weekend retreat for spiritual and emotional healing after abortion will be held in Smithstone House, Kilwinning, on Fri. 27th – Sun. 29th May. This confidential, supportive retreat is powerful for anyone who has been affected by their own or someone else’s abortion experience. For more information, please call Marene on 07505 904 656 or email […]
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