I receive a Google alert each day for news events dealing with the issue of trauma. There are many on the list each day! Trauma centered care is big industry and has grown immensely over the past two decades. None of the alerts, however, talk about trauma as a result of having an abortion experience. None! If you’re like me, you wonder why?
I’d like to share with you my own personal cause and effect experience.
At the center of trauma-informed care are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s), which can cause trauma to varying extents. You can imagine that those experiences include events like child abuse of any kind, witnessing violence, neglect, unsafe home environments, to name a few. Unless these traumatic experiences are faced head on and treatment provided, the individual is likely to not only engage in risky behavior themselves as they grow up, but also pass it on to the next generation. This is called generational trauma. Trauma effects behavior, which leads to more trauma. The cycle goes on and on, until it is broken.
I am not an expert on trauma, but I have learned much about it in the last few years as I pressed through my own abortion-related trauma.
For anyone experiencing the pain of abortion, if you want to be free, there is healing available.
First, the attempt to take my life through the abortionist instruments traumatized me at about 13 weeks’ gestation. This violent experience was not discussed with my mom until I was in my 30’s. Second, while submitting to the authority of others, I lost two children myself to abortion and then, after my loss, I pivoted to a job in the abortion industry.
There is much pain and suffering to be healed of from these multiple experiences. Here is a partial list of symptoms as stated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: anger, fear, shame, self-medication, eating disorders, detached emotions, risky sexual behavior, and sleep disturbances.
Abortion is a violent experience that traumatizes it’s victims. One in four women are affected by an abortion experience. Men, families, communities and nations are affected too! It is and has been a destructive, violent and damaging reality for decades.
Abortion trauma begets more trauma, generation after generation, unless there is a cycle breaker.
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Before birth a severe trauma experience was set within my brain, and then it manifested through my behavior for the first three decades of my life. The affliction that abortion had over me was finally and eternally broken when I came to faith in Jesus Christ, receiving forgiveness, and being made new day-by-day. Christ is the cycle breaker and can change us from the inside out. His redemption is a miraculous gift!
I’ve accessed healing through the Abortion Survivors Network, and have experienced healing from abortion through Forgiven and Set Free and other programs. I’ve also been blessed by the group, And Then There Were None, for the time that I worked in the abortion industry. I can attest to the benefit of healing and the hope the process provides.
For anyone experiencing the pain of abortion, if you want to be free, there is healing available, through many resources, books, videos and every kind of format. Look to your local community for something or someone. Or, if I can help, reach out to me at pahurley@alaska.com.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
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Interesting story. we need people like you to tell your story to young girls that are thinking about having an abortion. Your story might help stop them from aborting.
That you Neil. I also teach about sexual integrity and choosing abstinence, until marriage. This would prevent a lot of trauma.
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Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your experiences. May God continue to bless you on your journey.
I appreciate that so much. Thank you.
Wasilla’s Pro-life pregnancy Center, HeartReach, offers a FREE Abortion Recovery class.
Wonderful resource!
The key note speaker at a recent fundraiser for a pro life pregnancy center testified of being an abortion survivor. She was the twin in the womb during her mother’s abortion. Most abortions are performed BLIND! In other words, there’s no visual for the one performing the procedure. (just to show how dangerous these procedures can be!) He didn’t know there were two. The one fetus was destroyed and somehow the twin survived and was born later. The baby was adopted by a loving couple who raised her. But as an adult, she did locate her birth mother and learn the truth about her birth; and to forgive the woman.
Hi Kasey, Claire was kind enough to recognize me at that event. We are both members of The Abortion Survivor’s Network and are both twinless twins. She was amazing, and her story is so powerful.
Wasilla’s pro-life pregnancy Center–Heart Reach– offers a FREE Abortion Recovery class.
Bless you Priscilla.
Thank you Dan!! I appreciate that and receive it.
Project Rachel Alaska is a ministry of the Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau based on scripture, through which you can experience the love, mercy, and forgiveness of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you have had an abortion experience, you need a time to grieve your loss and reflect on your feelings of regret and sorrow. Project Rachel is here to help you do that through a nine-week support group in a supportive environment. It is free and we offer complete confidentiality. The process provides tools to learn how, with God’s grace, you can accept forgiveness. To learn about us go to FaceBook ProjectRachelAlaska or projectrachelalaska.com You may contact us at PROJECTRACHELALASKA@GMAIL.COM, or (907) 297-7781
Thank you Carol. Project Rachel is a wellspring of healing and provides care by many loving, compassionate servants of the Lord.
People, both men and women should go on line and compare the videos of the “Spark” of life moment of conception for all us human persons. Then if you have the ‘fortitude’ go on and see the tiny one trying to literally run from the suction, or mom being coerced into waiting so as baby is near delivery.. is killed and kidney harvested or even more horrific if possible (*go on University of Pittsburg to see actual videos) baby is pulled into this world, killed then top of head (Calvarium) with scalp hair attached to sell in “Pristine” condition (*last year was about $550.00 each one) an grafted onto mice backs: Yep ! Fauci and NIH have approved and funded these horrors.. No Halloween ghouls required.. they have been here a long while. Grandma PS: you have the ‘lawful’ rights to kill a baby in Alaska ANY time by a lic. doctor during the entire pregnancy, This became Alaska law between 1967- 1970 BEFORE January 1973 Roe v Wade. Where are these innocent persons rights?
I wish Christians would keep their hypocritical hands out of my life. Don’t want abortion then don’t have one. You talk of freedom but impose a childbirth mandate on girls and women.