Here are some local resources for anyone seeking help in facing an unplanned pregnancy:
Carolyn's Place
137 Grandview Avenue, Waterbury
24/7 Hotline (203) 597-9050
Text (203) 695-1252
Hartford Women's Center
10 Jefferson St Unit C-2, Hartford
Phone: (860) 205-7178
St Gerard's Center For Life
22 Maple Ave, Hartford
(860) 205-7178
59 Eaton St, Hartford
(860) 257-1021
For anyone seeking healing after an abortion, please click here for information about Rachel's Vineyard. This program offers retreats for healing after abortion. The weekends are offered throughout the year in Connecticut, across the U.S, and throughout the world.
Rachel’s Vineyard is a ministry of Priests for Life... Married couples, mothers, fathers, grandparents and siblings of aborted children, as well as persons who have been involved in the abortion industry have come to Rachel's Vineyard in search of peace and inner healing.
-www.rachelsvineyard.org
You are not alone…
"When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God -- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard
in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world -- and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!'"
- Congressman Henry Hyde
A brief and agonizing insight into a subject mostly dismissed in today's society, but nevertheless, so tragic and heartbreaking for the person involved.
Abortion - and its effect on the father.
Phil McCombs’s agonizing 1995 account arguably is the finest post-abortion reflection on abortion from a man’s perspective ever written.
Excerpt from ‘Catholic Answers’ on www.catholic.com.
The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae ("The Gospel of Life") have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder.
Thus, in 1995 Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion "is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62).