Pro-Choice Post-Abortion Counseling Programs

Groups and Resources with a Pro-Choice Slant

• Exhale

• The Pregnancy Options website includes helpful information about post-abortion feelings and some useful exercises to work through them.

• Peace After Abortion

• Being at peace with choices

• Healthy coping after an abortion from the Abortion Conversation Project.

• Project Voice oral history project

• Inner Healing After Abortion

• Imagine Counseling offers phone counseling after an abortion for a fee.

• Terra Wise does pro-choice post-abortion healing work in Santa Barbara, California.

• Emerge: Sharing Our Voices, Supporting Our Choices

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

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

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

Peace after Abortion Ava Torre-Bueno, Pimpernel Press, 1997 Peace After Abortion website

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

• The Abortion Counseling Conundrum Dana Goldstein | June 30, 2008

"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."