Project Rachel
Rochester Area Right To Life
Project Rachel |
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Rochester Area Right To Life |
Healing the wounds of
abortion… Abortion is a traumatic experience… |
If you or a friend is hurting
from an abortion, please call toll-free 1-888-9RACHEL (1-888-972-2435) |
If you have been involved in an abortion, it has likely overwhelmed your life in many ways. Today you may be experiencing confusion, regret, guilt, grief, anxiety, and despair. These are common feelings, not only for the woman who undergoes the abortion, but for the father of the unborn child, siblings, grandparents, friends, and medical personnel.
For members of the Catholic faith, the pain of abortion is intensified by a sense of alienation from both God and Church. What you need to know and believe is that your Church understands and cares. Healing and reconciliation are rooted in the over poiwering love of Jesus Christ and reflected in the heart of the Church’s ministry. As Church, we reach out to you with compassion, concern, and sacramental forgiveness.
Please do not suffer alone
We understand and would like to help.
Project Rachel is a sensitive, confidential, private post-abortion reconciliation program offering a renewed sense of hope and forgiveness. We recognize and do not trivialize the trauma of abortion. We understand the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of abortion, and believe that God’s forgiveness and unconditional love is a significant part of the healing process. People in Project Rachel want to be the instrument to enable you to experience the mercy of Christ and want to help you be at peace with yourself and with God.
Project Rachel offers:
All inquiries are held in complete confidence. Professional counseling is available on a sliding fee scale.
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After 26 years it’s heartening to find an avenue for my mourning. My initial feelings of relief with accompanying loss were followed by denial regarding
my three abortions. After sixteen years, the guilt I felt from the abortions began to
overwhelm me. Through reconciliation and post-abortion counseling I can feel God’s
forgiveness, forgive myself, and have peace of mind.
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I’ve never forgotten the terrible feeling I had after I
assisted a friend financially so that she could secure an abortion. I borrowed the money
from a friend, so I involved yet another person in this act that I now profoundly regret. -a 42 year old professional woman The death of your children is very
difficult to cope with in any case, but abortion is a death that goes unrecognized by
society. There’s no funeral, no gathering of friends and family, no chance to grieve
openly, no chance to say goodbye. I can remember just wanting someone to know, wanting
someone – anybody – to acknowledge my loss, wanting someone to tell me it’s
ok to grieve. |
Mission Statement Project Rachel is a Catholic outreach of healing and reconciliation to women and men who are experiencing emotional and spiritual pain after an abortion. "Rachel mourns for her children; she refuses to be consoled because her children are no more. Thus says the Lord: Cease your cries of mourning. Wipe the tears from your eyes. The sorrow you have shown shall have its reward. There is hope for your future." -Jeremiah 31:15-17 |
If you or a friend is hurting from an abortion, please call toll-free
1-888-9RACHEL
(1-888-972-2435)
Project Rachel is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester
1150 Buffalo Road
Rochester, NY 14624
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