Need healing after abortion? Get a foot massage
Exhale is a pro-abortion, after-abortion support organization that believes “abortion can be a normal part of the reproductive lives of women and girls.”
One of Exhale’s solutions to whatever “#healing” may be needed after an abortion? I noted this on Twitter the other day…
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Now obviously by “#healing” Exhale didn’t mean physical healing, or it would have recommended a sitz bath rather than a foot bath.
No, Exhale acknowledges on its site abortion can cause “regrets… grieving… sadness… anger… frustration… jealousy… fear of not getting pregnant again,” etc.
Those don’t sound to me like normal responses to a “normal” component of the reproductive continuum to me.
But what else can Exhale do than offer cosmetic solutions?
Here was a sad note on the site:
I am also one of “those women” who regret terminating. I was 22 at the time and now at 38, am facing the possibility of not having a biological child due to mental health issues. I knew the moment I checked in for my appointment all those years ago that I was making a decision that was going against my heart. I had a lack of resources, a lack of confident, and support. But it just never felt right. And never has since then.
I wonder if the Exhale counselor told this woman everything would be better if she got a foot massage.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Why would you need to heal if abortion isn’t a bad thing????
This is just stupid.
Exactly, Amber. Proaborts need to get their talking points together.
Um, I never had an abortion, does that mean I’m abnormal?
Hey!!
Great place for me to post this…..:)
Feb 24th 25th and 26th I am holding my first Rachel’s Vineyard retreat!! There are women around me that are hurting. They need help and recovery! Would you please pray that they remain brave and courageous by coming to the retreat and seeking the healing that is available?
Thank you so much!!
Exhale? Meh.
The HEART and TRUTH of the matter is this. A child dies in an abortion. A woman is wounded deep in her soul. The grief over the death of that child is hardly taken care of by babbling on about foot massages.
You don’t get to have it both ways.
Is it a simple procedure or isn’t it?
Is it easy or isn’t it?
Are there risks or not?
Can you move on or can’t you?
Is it one of the best things a woman can do or not?
Does it bring freedom?
Does it empower?
Does it heal?
Does it help?
Do you give a rip?
Bless you, Carla!! Just wondering IF the foot massage will be featured….;)
Jesus washed the feet of his disciples – if you want to really have an impact, offer that same kind of foot washing to post-abortive women who need the complete cleansing of Christ, and then perhaps our help to clean their soiled soles.
Carla,
Praying for you and the women whose stories you will hear this weekend! God bless!
God bless you this weekend Carla.
Question: What does a woman need after she just took the life of her baby on a dilatation, mutilation, vacuum suction, search and destroy mission?
Answer: She needs a foot massage, it will make her feel better.
My mom worked for years as a waitress and I used to massage her feet. I didn’t mind, after all, it was a small way to nurture her after she nurtured me.
So, abortion advocates, if you want the best foot massage, let your children live and ask them to do it. It teaches character and helped me to appreciate how hard my mom worked for us and our family.
So I guess a foot massage is the way to relax after experiencing too much “empowerment”.
“abortion can be a normal part of the reproductive lives of women and girls.”
Normal? What’s “normal” about killing your pre-born child? And if it’s no big deal, what exactly do they think they need to give “support” for?
I don’t ask for support after I shave my legs, which is a “normal part of the lives of women and girls”.
All the foot massages in the world won’t make you feel better about killing your own child.
agree w amber…this is stupid. can i get a foot massage after giving birth? my feet were killing me after my last pregnancy. pretty soon will they open an abortion spa? aaaak……..praying for you carla. also the woman who aborted at 22 and never felt the same….i feel bad for her. i dont believe any of my girlfriends felt the same after theirs either. @ carla praying for you all and you continued part in helping hurting women heal over their abortions.
a full body massage doesnt heal a fractured soul.
Key word with Exhale: ‘selfcare’. To the point of caring about nothing and no one else. Have you seen their abortion sympathy cards? They’re the ultimate in hypocrisy with messages like “I’m sorry for your loss.”
yeah a few of my post abortive girlfriends have made comments like ” I had an abortion and i feel like shi*!” another aborted in 99 and cried her heart out and told me ” i have dreams about a little girl coming to me and i.go to touch her and shes gooooone. i killed my daaaaaughter.”! hands in her face howling. i also knew a woman who had to have a hysterectomy after her 8th abortion. she almost drank herself to deah she was so dzmned depressed. none of them ever said that a good old foot massage would fix it. they were mourning the death of their dead babies! they need help to heal because abortion is forever.
And those women are blessed.
Far, far worse — to have an abortion and shrug it off or vehemently defend it with no guilt at all.
It’s the difference between a tormented conscience and none at all.
“Blessed are those who mourn,” for mourning may be comforted. There’s no comfort for those who feel no need of comfort. Their need is very, very different indeed, and their fate perhaps very different as well.
I had an abortion back in 2001. I was tormented by it for a long time. Couldn’t walk past the baby aisle at the grocery store without breaking out in tears among other issues. I suffered for 8 years before I found out that a local church offered a post abortion class. I took the class and it healed me so much that I now lead a class myself. (www.saveone.com is the book we use if anyone is interested)
Anyway, my point is, I called Exhale once. It was in 2008, I had just given birth to twins 4 months earlier and my anniversary of the abortion was upon me. I was feeling guilty- why was I given two babies when I killed one?? When I called Exhale, it was the biggest joke ever. I spoke to a teenager who had never had an abortion herself. Here I am 7 years later still suffering and she is telling me to write in a journal. Did she really think I hadn’t done that ever?? After being on the phone with her for about 20 minutes I had to hang up. She just didn’t get it- I was suffering and this young child just couldn’t relate the way I needed someone to.
That’s why I loved taking the class that I did. To be with other women who understand all the emotions that you go through. Who understand that you have tried for years to “just move on” and forget. You can’t.
Just like I could never comfort a parent who lost their child to cancer the way another parent who has gone through the same thing can, I don’t think that women who are hurting from having an abortion can be comforted the same way they can be by talking to someone who has or hasn’t been in the same similar situation.
Amen Allie!!
Save One is excellent!! So glad you have found healing just as I have!!
God bless you and thank you for leading our sisters out of the darkness of a past abortion and into the light.