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	:"Absolutely. There’s a reciprocity, too. I gain so much for my own grief process from witnessing how other people experience their loss. I’m touched and fueled by this work, by these courageous people."		:"Absolutely. There’s a reciprocity, too. I gain so much for my own grief process from witnessing how other people experience their loss. I’m touched and fueled by this work, by these courageous people."

	*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518327/ The politicization of abortion: And the evolution of abortion counseling.] American Journal of Public Health, Joffe, C. (2013). 103(1), 57–65. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301063		'''[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518327/ The politicization of abortion: And the evolution of abortion counseling.] American Journal of Public Health, Joffe, C. (2013). 103(1), 57–65. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301063'''

	*Abortion counseling recognizes that women may have conflicts between their "head and heart" which reflects the "complex and changing political meanings of abortion." The interviewed counselors admit that they are often not given sufficient time to counsel women considering an abortion.		*Abortion counseling recognizes that women may have conflicts between their "head and heart" which reflects the "complex and changing political meanings of abortion." The interviewed counselors admit that they are often not given sufficient time to counsel women considering an abortion.

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	:"Does that communication work in both directions?"		:"Does that communication work in both directions?"
	:"Absolutely. There’s a reciprocity, too. I gain so much for my own grief process from witnessing how other people experience their loss. I’m touched and fueled by this work, by these courageous people."		:"Absolutely. There’s a reciprocity, too. I gain so much for my own grief process from witnessing how other people experience their loss. I’m touched and fueled by this work, by these courageous people."

			*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518327/ The politicization of abortion: And the evolution of abortion counseling.] American Journal of Public Health, Joffe, C. (2013). 103(1), 57–65. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301063

			*Abortion counseling recognizes that women may have conflicts between their "head and heart" which reflects the "complex and changing political meanings of abortion." The interviewed counselors admit that they are often not given sufficient time to counsel women considering an abortion.

	===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===		===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===

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	SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)		SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)
	Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.		Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.

			===Pre-Abortion Doula Support===

			'''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-long-five-minutes-abortion-doulas-bring-comfort-during-a-complicated-time/2017/11/27/c63f179c-9f04-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.0f2cce8812b9 The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time] By Monica Hesse, Washington Post, November 28, 2017.'''
			*D.C. Doulas for Choice report many women aborting against their moral beliefs or maternal desires.

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	*[http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/on-being-an-abortion-doula/284219/ On Being an Abortion Doula] Roc Mortin, the Atlantic.		*[http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/on-being-an-abortion-doula/284219/ On Being an Abortion Doula] Roc Mortin, the Atlantic.
			:Annie Robinson is a doula who accompanies women through the abortion experience to give them emotional support. She describes how prior to abortion many women are afraid of connection, even with her supporting efforts: "They just don’t want to be anchored in this moment, perhaps because it’s too much. It gets too real, or it gets too painful. We all have moments in life where we just don’t want to acknowledge where we are right now. To connect with somebody, and to receive what somebody is offering brings you quickly into the present moment, and sometimes people just want to avoid that"
			:Regarding describes the aftermath of abortion she says: "One of the things that really draws me to this work is that I’m really interested in loss and grief, and that’s what’s happening here. Even if the grief is celebratory, it still is grief and it still is loss. There’s something lost with birth too—loss of pregnancy, loss of the in-utero experience. I had some devastating losses as a very young child and ongoing through life—mostly the deaths of people very close to me. I’ve grown from my exploration of what it is to lose and to understand that life is all about loss. How can we embrace that? How can that be something that shapes us, and colors us, and gives us substance by appreciating what it is that absence offers? I’ve never had an abortion. I have never experienced that loss, but I think there are overarching themes of the loss experience that are communicable."

			:"Does that communication work in both directions?"
			:"Absolutely. There’s a reciprocity, too. I gain so much for my own grief process from witnessing how other people experience their loss. I’m touched and fueled by this work, by these courageous people."

	===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===		===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===
	SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)		SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)
	Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.		Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.

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	:An excellent article from a pro-choice perspective asking counselors to recognize disenfranchised grief issues following abortion and to provide necessary services regardless of political beliefs.		:An excellent article from a pro-choice perspective asking counselors to recognize disenfranchised grief issues following abortion and to provide necessary services regardless of political beliefs.

			*[http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/on-being-an-abortion-doula/284219/ On Being an Abortion Doula] Roc Mortin, the Atlantic.

	===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===		===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===
	SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)		SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)
	Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.		Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.

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	===Books on Post-Abortion Healing With a Pro-Choice Slant===		===Books on Post-Abortion Healing With a Pro-Choice Slant===
			''Choice Processing and Resolution Therapy'' Trudy M. Johnson, 2013 - written for therapists

	''C.P.R.: Choice Processing and Resolution'' Trudy M. Johnson, 2009		''C.P.R.: Choice Processing and Resolution'' Trudy M. Johnson, 2009

	''The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery after an Abortion''		''The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery after an Abortion'' Candace De Puy, Ph.D., M.S.W. and Dana Dovitch, PH.D., M.F.C.C., Simon & Schuster, 1997
	Candace De Puy, Ph.D., M.S.W. and Dana Dovitch, PH.D., M.F.C.C., Simon & Schuster, 1997

			''Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words'' Eve Kushner, Harrington Park Press, 1997

	~~''Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words''~~		''Peace after Abortion'' Ava Torre-Bueno, Pimpernel Press, 1997
	~~Eve Kushner, Harrington Park Press, 1997~~


	''Peace after Abortion''
	Ava Torre-Bueno, Pimpernel Press, 1997

	===Articles Related to Post-Abortion Healing from a Pro-Choice Perspective===		===Articles Related to Post-Abortion Healing from a Pro-Choice Perspective===

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	*Peace After Abortion		*Peace After Abortion

	*[~~MissingPieces~~.org Missing Pieces]		*[http://www.missingpieces.org/ Missing Pieces]

	*Being at peace with choices		*Being at peace with choices

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	===Books on Post-Abortion Healing With a Pro-Choice Slant===		===Books on Post-Abortion Healing With a Pro-Choice Slant===

			''C.P.R.: Choice Processing and Resolution'' Trudy M. Johnson, 2009

	''The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery after an Abortion''		''The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery after an Abortion''

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	*Peace After Abortion		*Peace After Abortion

			*[MissingPieces.org Missing Pieces]

	*Being at peace with choices		*Being at peace with choices

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	:"Pro-choice activists have come to embrace the idea that many women who've had abortions can benefit from non-ideological counseling. So why are the groups that provide such counseling having so much trouble raising money?"		:"Pro-choice activists have come to embrace the idea that many women who've had abortions can benefit from non-ideological counseling. So why are the groups that provide such counseling having so much trouble raising money?"
	:"Since 2002, Exhale has served 15,000 women on its hotline, and while Emerge is a local group that has reached only a few dozen people, pro-choice groups across the country are using it as a model for new post-abortion counseling services, Madsen says."		:"Since 2002, Exhale has served 15,000 women on its hotline, and while Emerge is a local group that has reached only a few dozen people, pro-choice groups across the country are using it as a model for new post-abortion counseling services, Madsen says."

			*[http://ct.counseling.org/2013/01/bringing-abortion-aftercare-into-the-21st-century Bringing abortion aftercare into the 21st century] Trudy M. Johnson. Counseling Today. Jan. 1, 2013

			:An excellent article from a pro-choice perspective asking counselors to recognize disenfranchised grief issues following abortion and to provide necessary services regardless of political beliefs.

	===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===		===Efficacy of Post-Abortion Treatment===
	SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)		SD Layer, C Roberts, K Wild, J Walters. Postabortion Grief: Evaluating the Possible Efficacy of a Spiritual Group Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 5, 344-350 (2004)
	Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.		Objective: Although not every woman is negatively affected by an abortion, researchers have identified a subgroup of women susceptible to grief and trauma. The primary providers for postabortion grief (PAG) groups are community faith-based agencies. Principle features of PAG are shame and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Method: This study measured the efficacy of a spiritually based grief group intervention for women grieving an abortion. Thirty-five women completed the Impact of Event Scale-Revised(IES-R) and the Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) pre- and postintervention along with posttest open-ended questions. Results: Postintervention measures indicated significant decrease in shame (p < .000) and PTSD symptoms (p < .002). More than 80% reported their religious beliefs and the spiritual intervention played a strong to very strong role in the group. Conclusion: Social workers need to screen for PAG with a postabortive woman and when appropriate refer her to agencies offering such groups.