ABORTION EXAMPLES

1---A FORTY-SIX YEAR OLD ATHEIST WENT INTO A CHURCH MERELY TO APOLOGISE TO GOD FOR HER ABORTION AS SHE FELT THE DISCOMFORT OF GUILT.

WHILE SHE PRAYED, SHE AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE PRESENT SAW A GROUP OF CHILDREN AROUND HER.

SHE REALISED THAT ALL OF HER MISCARRIAGES WERE THERE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THEIR AGES AND SHE KNEW THEIR NAMES.

AT THE EXACT MOMENT, IN ANOTHER CITY, HER DAUGHTER WAS CURED OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA.



2---A SIXTY YEAR-OLD HINDU MOTHER IN AN ANGLICAN EUCHARIST SERVICE " SAW " HER TWO ABORTIONS AND HER NEPHEW, WHO HAD BEEN ELECTROCUTED ACCIDENTALLY DRESSED IN WHITE, DANCE OFF JOYFULLY WITH HER ANGELS TOWARDS A VERY BRIGHT LIGHT WHICH SHE KNEW WAS HEAVEN.

AT THE SAME TIME, HER SCHIZOPHRENIC DAUGHTER WHO HEARD VOICES AND WAS IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL, WAS SUDDENLY HEALED.

FOLLOW-UP SIX YEARS LATER FOUND THE DAUGHTER ABSOLUTELY NORMAL.



3---A FIFTY YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF HER SON.

SHE REALISED THAT HE WAS ACTING OUT OTHER LIVES AND ADMITTED THAT SHE HAD TWO ABORTIONS OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS YOUTH.

DURING THE MASS, HOWEVER, SHE WAS AWARE OF A STRANGE DISTENTION OF HER ABDOMEN THREE TIMES AND THEN REMEMBERED THAT SHE HAD ALSO HAD A MISCARRIAGE, SO THIS CHILD WAS INCLUDED IN THE PRAYERS.


" ABORTION

IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE ANY PREMATURE ENDING OF A PREGNANCY.


WHEN IS THE FETUS A HUMAN BEING ?

IN JEREMIAH 1.5 GOD SAYS,

" BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMB I KNEW,"

AND

PSALM 139.13,

" YOU KNITTED ME TOGETHER IN MY MOTHER'S WOMB. "

SO WE CONCLUDE THAT FROM CONCEPTION THERE EXISTS A REAL BEING,

A SOUL, ETERNAL, A TEMPORARY RESIDRNT IN HUMAN FORM.


FROM CONCEPTION THIS SOUL IS AWARE, ALERT, RECORDING ATTITUDES AND WORDS, GOOD AND BAD, AND CONTINUING AFTER BIRTH.


THUS, THE TERROR OF ITS ACTUAL KILLING---

POISON, SUFFOCATION, FLUSHED AWAY OR INCINERATED---

CAN BE REMEMBERED.


WE KNOW THIS FROM LISTENING TO HUNDREDS OF PATIENT'S COMPLAINTS,

SUCH AS,

" I'M COLD, UNLOVED, HUNGRY, THIRSTY ;

I MUST WANDER AND WANDER ;

I CAN'T LIE DOWN OR SLEEP ;

I DON'T KNOW MY NAME ;

I 'M BREATHLESS, FRIGHTENED ;

SOMEONE IS POISIONING ME ;

I CAN NEVER GO NEAR WATER OR FLUSH A LAVATORY ;

I CAN SMALL BURNING HAIR ;

MY SKIN FEELS AS IF IT IS COVERED WITH BLISTERS. "


   IN HUNDREDS OF CASES, PSYCHIATRISTS HAVE FOUND THAT THE SYMPTOMS MATCH NOT ONLY THE METHOD OF ABORTION AND DISPOSAL OF THE FETUS,

BUT ALSO THE AGE GROUP OF THE LOST CHILD, AS THOUGH IT WERE GROWING UP ALONGSIDE IN ANOTHER EXISTENCE,

TRYING TO GET ATTENTION FROM FAMILY MEMBERS. "


" UNRESOLVED GRIEF IS A FREQUENT SEQUEL TO INDUCED AND SPONTANEOUS ABORTION. THE OCCURRENCE OF GRIEF ARISES OUT OF AN INHERENT INSTALLATION OF THE CHILD THAT BEGINS WITH THE AWARENESS THAT THE WOMAN IS PREGNANT.


INSTALLATION CAN OCCUR IN HUSBANDS, CHILDREN, AND OTHER PERSONS WHO MAY BE INVOLVED IN OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOSS OF THE CHILD.


IF THE LOST IS NOT GRIEVED, SYMTOMS CAN OCCUR AS A RESULT OF THE LACK

OF RESOLUTION OF THE GRIEF. THEY CAN OCCUR IMMEDIATELY OR YEARS LATER WHEN SOME OTHER TRAUMA AROUSES THE REPRESSED GRIEF.  


WHEN A MOTHER ACKNOWLEDGES THE EXISTENCE OF AN ABORTED CHILD AND PRAYS IN APOLOGY TO GOD, NAMING AND COMMITTING IT TO GOD, THEN THE OTHER'S SYMPTOMS CEASE, USUALLY FROM THE FIRST MOMENT OF THIS RECOGNITION OF THE CHILD.


THE USE OF RITUAL MOURNING, AS EMBODIED IN A SPECIAL CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST, PROVIDES ALMOST IMMEDIATE RELIEF OF THE GRIEF, AND IN MOST INSTANCES, THE MAJORITY OF THE PATIENT'S SYMPTOMS.


THE EUCHARIST IS A USEFUL ADJUNCTIVE INTERVENTION IN PATIENTS WITH UNRESOLVED GRIEF WHOSE BELIEF SYSTEM ALLOWED THEM TO PARTICIPATE. "


CONCLUSION

UNRESOLVED GRIEF :

IS A FREQUENT SEQUEL TO INDUCED AND SPONTANEOUS ABORTION.

THE OCCURRENCE OF GRIEF ARISES OT OF AN INHERENT INSTALLATION OF THE CHILD THAT BEGINS WITH THE AWARENESS THAT THE WOMAN IS PREGNANT.

INSTALLATION CAN OCCUR IN HUSBANDS, CHILDREN, AND OTHER PERSONS WHO MAY BE INVOLVED IN OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOSS OF THE CHILD.


IF THE LOST IS NOT GRIEVED,

SYMPTOMS CAN OCCUR AS A RESULT OF THE LASK OF RESOLUTION OF THE GRIEF.


THEY CAN OCCUR IMMEDIATELY

OR

YEARS LATER WHEN SOME OTHER TRAUMA AROUSES THE REPRESSED GRIEF.


THE USE OF RITUAL MOURNING :

AS EMBODIED IN A SPECIAL CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST,

PROVIDES ALMOST IMMEDIATE RELIEF OF THE GRIEF,

AND IN MOST INSTANCES,

THE MAJORITY OF THE PATIENT'S SYMPTOMS.


THE EUCHARIST IS A USEFUL ADJUNCTIVE INTERVENTION IN PATIENTS WITH UNRESOLVED GRIEF WHOSE BELIEF SYSTEM ALLOWED THEM TO PARTICIPATE.









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