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h e l p l i n e:
1-866-4-my-recovery
The Abortion Recovery Helpline/Directory is a service of Abortion Recovery InterNational, Inc. You can find out more about our parent organization, by clicking here: ARIN, Inc.
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If your organization would like to join our efforts, please click the button above. If you are a present affiliate and would like to renew your partnership, feel free to click as well. Thank you!
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If you are struggling with a past abortion, or know someone who is, please know that you / they are not alone. A past abortion is definitely not easy to talk about.
 We provide opportunities for abortion recovery counseling through our network of Abortion Recovery Centers. The counselors that partner us are trained specifically to handle post abortion issues. Most of our counselors have personally experienced an abortion themselves, or been involved in someone else's choice. We are aware that abortion affects all of us!
Experience show that women, men and family members who have experienced an abortion often have difficulties emotionally, physically, socially, mentally and spiritually. It doesn't matter if the abortion was 20 hours, 20 days or 20 years ago. It doesn't matter what ethnicity, gender, age, religion, ability or socio-economic status a person is. If somone is having a hard time with a past abortion... we have abortion recovery specialists that will hold their hand, talk by phone, meet for coffee, provide one-on-one counseling, support groups or just email. Call or email us... we can help!!
-I wish I'd never laid on that table. I sort of died inside that day.
-My girlfriend didn't tell me she was pregnant. I would have supported her and our baby. I've never gotten over it.
-I pressured my daughter to get an abortion. I encouraged the death of my own grandchild! What was I thinking?
-I was raped, and got pregnant. Nobody told me the abortion would hurt more emotionally than the rape!
-The doctor told us that our baby would be born with physical challenges. What if our baby wasn't really disabled?
-My sibling was aborted. I deal with this survivors guilt everyday.
-Never did I magine the depth of emotions that would be triggered when I saw my small embryo, floating in the water!
-I spent years in and out of rehab. Drugs became my life, from the moment I took the life of my child.
-I used to be a nurse in an abortion clinic. I told the women that their pregnancy was just "a blob of tissue" and that they wouldn't feel a thing. Women were physically hurt in our clinic; one even died.
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Those people are the women, men, siblings, grandparents, and extended family who have chosen an abortion in the past, or been affected by someone who has. Those people are your neighbors down the street, your pastor or his wife, your nephew's teacher, or your son's coach. Those people are your daughter's best friend, your work-out buddy at the gym, your grandmother or friend from school. You're eating lunch with those people at work, studying the Bible with them at church, watching them on TV, listening to them on a CD, or seeing them run for public office.
Those people are individuals who chose abortion when it was legal, or when it was illegal. Those people may have deceived into thinking it was the ONLY way out of an unplanned or medically challenged pregnancy; and then realizing, that it was too late! Those people ARE EVERYWHERE! And they're suffering in silence around the world! WHY? Because they may be too ashamed and too frightened that they will be classified as "those people" when they ask or search for help.
We know.... because we are one of "those people".....more
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| abortion affects men, too
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"Men do grieve following abortion, but they are more likely to deny their grief ... rather than openly express (it) ... When men do express their grief, they try to do so in culturally prescribed “masculine” ways, i.e. anger, aggressiveness, control. Men typically grieve in a private way following an abortion ..."
- Vincent Rue, PhD. -- The Effects of Abortion on Men.
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| can recovery really help?
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Abortion Recovery changes your life forever. It gives you a sense of personal peace which heals internal brokenness, repairs relationships and brings back intimate friendships. It gives a new beginning to life following an abortion.
It literally will change the tide of your life!
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disclaimer:
AbortionRecovery.org and Abortion Recovery InterNational are referral and informational sites, not professional counseling sites. We are not all licensed therapists, although many of our affiliates may hold those credentials. We are a network of lay counselors, grief specialists, life coaches, social workers, clergy, professional therapists, sexual health educators, resource centers and support groups. We are not responsible for the actions performed by any person as a result of anything written within or related to Abortion Recovery InterNational or Abortion Recovery.org. By using our services, you agree to these terms.
Abortion Recovery InterNational, Inc. and AbortionRecovery.org strongly encourage abortion affected individuals to have completed an abortion recovery program PRIOR to involving themselves in any type of legal, research, speaking or activism opportunity.
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