Motherhood
Interrupted
A Catholic Ministry
For Post Abortion Healing
For Post Abortion Healing
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Hope For You
By Msgr. Edward L. Buelt
Pastor, Our Lady of Loreto Parish, Foxfield, Colorado
An excerpt from the Forward to Motherhood Interrupted...
...I was once talking with a woman who had undergone three
abortions. She and her husband, the father of all three of the
children they had aborted, had been married many years. They
had given birth to other children now raised and on their own.
They weren't particularly religious. They weren't Catholic nor, in
fact, did they adhere to any religious tradition; they held a
humanitarian ethic of secular values. She characterized their
marriage as loving and stable. Yet it never seemed to her to be
open or intimate. Approaching mid-life certain questions kept
perplexing her. Why had they not been able to achieve honest
openness and intimacy in their marriage? Why did it lack
spontaneity and creativity? What prevented them from the deep
happiness they expected and hoped for on their wedding
day-that day they were so young, so in love, so open to one
another and so attuned to the future.
Eventually she came to the conclusion that the answers to her
questions were rooted in the three abortions. Although they
occurred many years ago, they tainted everything that came
thereafter. Her husband and she had agreed to abortion as birth
control. Now she admitted that although they believed they were
controlling birth, with each abortion they gave themselves over in
fact to the control of death. The first, and then slowly but surely
each subsequent abortion, snuffed out their joy in life, the sense
of life is good together. In an insidious way the abortions of their
babies caused the abortion of their own freedom and trust. She
had come to this conclusion about the abortions themselves.
"We bought the line they sold us. They told us that abortion
terminates a pregnancy. To the contrary," she continued," I have
been struggling to give birth to my babies for forty years."
In the natural created order, the womb is a sanctuary, a place
where new life is protected, grows, and is born. Instead into this
very sanctuary of life she invited death. She believed that by
aborting her baby she was terminating her pregnancy; instead
she conceived death itself. After many years, she understands
that a mother's womb will not allow death to conquer life. She
aborted the bodies of her babies but her heart still labored to
protect their lives. For forty years she attempted to avoid the
pain of those three abortions by living according to the dictates of
an inadequate, secular moral code, one she believed justified her
choices. Yet in her heart she was continually in labor; she was
and is their mother...
By Msgr. Edward L. Buelt
Pastor, Our Lady of Loreto Parish, Foxfield, Colorado
An excerpt from the Forward to Motherhood Interrupted...
...I was once talking with a woman who had undergone three
abortions. She and her husband, the father of all three of the
children they had aborted, had been married many years. They
had given birth to other children now raised and on their own.
They weren't particularly religious. They weren't Catholic nor, in
fact, did they adhere to any religious tradition; they held a
humanitarian ethic of secular values. She characterized their
marriage as loving and stable. Yet it never seemed to her to be
open or intimate. Approaching mid-life certain questions kept
perplexing her. Why had they not been able to achieve honest
openness and intimacy in their marriage? Why did it lack
spontaneity and creativity? What prevented them from the deep
happiness they expected and hoped for on their wedding
day-that day they were so young, so in love, so open to one
another and so attuned to the future.
Eventually she came to the conclusion that the answers to her
questions were rooted in the three abortions. Although they
occurred many years ago, they tainted everything that came
thereafter. Her husband and she had agreed to abortion as birth
control. Now she admitted that although they believed they were
controlling birth, with each abortion they gave themselves over in
fact to the control of death. The first, and then slowly but surely
each subsequent abortion, snuffed out their joy in life, the sense
of life is good together. In an insidious way the abortions of their
babies caused the abortion of their own freedom and trust. She
had come to this conclusion about the abortions themselves.
"We bought the line they sold us. They told us that abortion
terminates a pregnancy. To the contrary," she continued," I have
been struggling to give birth to my babies for forty years."
In the natural created order, the womb is a sanctuary, a place
where new life is protected, grows, and is born. Instead into this
very sanctuary of life she invited death. She believed that by
aborting her baby she was terminating her pregnancy; instead
she conceived death itself. After many years, she understands
that a mother's womb will not allow death to conquer life. She
aborted the bodies of her babies but her heart still labored to
protect their lives. For forty years she attempted to avoid the
pain of those three abortions by living according to the dictates of
an inadequate, secular moral code, one she believed justified her
choices. Yet in her heart she was continually in labor; she was
and is their mother...
"...Come to truth and to
life and be forgiven.
As heavy as the weight of
death you bear, especially
the death of your own
unborn baby, life itself is
stronger...As painful as
your abortion is,
forgiveness will bring you
freedom and peace."
life and be forgiven.
As heavy as the weight of
death you bear, especially
the death of your own
unborn baby, life itself is
stronger...As painful as
your abortion is,
forgiveness will bring you
freedom and peace."