It’s normal to grieve a pregnancy loss, including the loss of a child by abortion. It can form a hole in one’s heart, a hole so deep that sometimes it seems nothing can fill the emptiness, according to Project Rachel. These organizations are ready to help those individuals in need of healing.
Esperanza de Raquel
Post-abortion/miscarriage healing in Spanish, in San Diego and the Imperial Valley
Post-traumatic suffering is the untold story of abortion. The very real and devastating phenomenon of post-abortion syndrome is starting to be more widely recognized. Countless women and men suffer serious psychological and spiritual consequences post-abortion, typically in silence and solitude. Please know that you are not alone in your pain and that we are here to help.
Help & Healing
- Rachel’s Hope is a ministry of the Church that offers after-abortion healing and reconciliation for Catholic women (or Catholic-friendly women). Trained lay leaders provide care in English and Spanish for those suffering in the aftermath of abortion. In addition to referring for Sacramental Reconciliation, the ministry provides services, including support groups, retreats and referrals to licensed mental health professionals.
- Your Abortion Experience is a confidential space for those who are touched by abortion, whether the experience happened recently or years ago. This website is a refuge for those who wish to tell their story and begin the process of healing.
- God’s Mercy Awaits You: Find Healing After Abortion, by Sr. Patricia Marie Barnett, RGS, helps women and men find healing and reconciliation after an abortion.
- Project Rachel: It’s normal to grieve a pregnancy loss, including the loss of a child by abortion. It can form a hole in one’s heart, a hole so deep that sometimes it seems nothing can fill the emptiness. You are not alone.
- Deeper Still Fallbrook offers retreats to help women and men find healing and lasting freedom from wounded hearts.
- Click here for more grief support resources.
Ministry Resources
- Creating a Safe Space to Heal was developed in consultation with a group of professors, therapists, and peer counselors to answer questions like, How can I help those who suffered from reproductive loss? How can I be a safe place? How can I better understand someone’s response after an abortion and what the healing process might look like?