The Pregnancy Resource Center offers you a place to share your pain,guilt and shame following an abortion(s). Depending on your personality, background, and circumstances, for some post abortion symptoms may appear almost immediately, for others years later, orseemingly never. It may seem strange that something that is legal andthat was put in place to eliminate "a problem" could not only engender such strong emotions, but also lead to so many other problems. However, when you consider that a life was lost, your child's, it really isn'tso odd. There are few places in our society where you are allowed to grieve the life of that aborted child - hence, the unresolved grief andpain. For this reason, the remorse, shame, anger, unforgiveness andsorrow is not only not relieved, but grows and leads to other negative results.

The Pregnancy Resource Center offers you a place to be healed in a loving, non-judgmental, confidential environment. There are counselors available, post abortive women included, who have felt many of the things you have felt but have been wonderfully healed. We would love to help you do the same. The resource primarily used is a study called FORGIVEN AND SET FREE by Linda Cochrane. It is a nine to ten week study that covers God's Character, Relief, Denial, Anger, Depression, Forgiveness and Acceptance. There is also a study for men called HEALING A FATHER'S HEART. Women are not alone in their grief . The studies can be done with a counselor or in a small group. All itrequires is a heart that desires to walk in truth. The results can beLIFE and FREEDOM! The study that is best for you will be decided whenyou meet with your counselor.

Ifa study holds no appeal to you but you need a listening ear and anopen, loving heart, we want to be there for you as well. If the thoughtof even coming in scares you, e-mail me at judigrem@softcom.net and we can communicate through email until you feel safe. There is really noreason for you to carry this alone any longer. There is help. Call our 24 hour Helpline at 475-2200 and set up an appointment.

With an open heart,
Judi Gremminger
PRC Post Abortion Counselor

Doyou find yourself struggling to turn off feelings connected to yourabortion(s), perhaps telling yourself over and over again to forgetabout it?

Do you find yourself avoiding books, magazines and television programs that deal with the subject of abortion?

Are you affected by physical reminders of your abortion (babies, pregnant women, etc)?

Are you uncomfortable around children?

Arethere certain times of the year you find yourself depressed, sick oraccident-prone, especially around the anniversary date of the abortionor would-be birth date?

Areyou resentful and unforgiving toward anyone because of his or herinvolvement in your abortion(s) -- parents, boyfriend, abortionist, friends, husband, or even yourself?

Post-Abortion Stress is a type of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which develops when a woman is unable to work through her emotional responses resulting from the trauma of an abortion. The grief she may feel after an abortion is seldom acknowledged but often repressed or denied.

Post-Abortion Stress happens when the grieving process is not completed. It may occur within a few months following an abortion, or it may surface many yearslater.

Awoman experiencing Post -Abortion Stress needs to complete the natural grieving process. We offer counseling to guide her through this process.

All our services are free and confidential.