Post-Abortion Websites

www.rachelsvineyard.org
Rachel’s Vineyard Retreats/Groups

www.afterabortion.com
neutral peer support among women

www.afterabortion.org
Elliott Institute

www.marquette.edu/rachel
National Office of Post-Abortion Healing

www.hopeafterabortion.com
U.S. Catholic Bishops' post-abortion outreach

Books & Booklets: After Abortion, Miscarriage, or other Pregnancy Losses

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
NOTE: Many of these resources can be purchased at or below retail price from After the Choice outreach. Contact Colleen at cknutsen@oakdiocese.org or 510-267-8394.

Forbidden Grief:The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, Theresa Burke, PhD and David Reardon, PhD

A Season to Heal: Help and hope for those working through Post-Abortion Stress , Luci Freed and Penny Yvonne Salazar,. LCSW

A Solitary Sorrow: Finding Healing & Wholeness after Abortion Teri Reisser, MFT

Men and Abortion: A Path to Healing, C.T. Coyle, Ph.D.

No One Told Me I Could Cry: A teen’s guide to hope and healing after abortion, Connie Nykiel, R.N.

Unspeakable Losses: Understanding the Experience of Pregnancy Loss, Miscarriage, and Abortion, Kim Kluger-Bell

An Empty Cradle, A Full Heart: Reflections for mothers and fathers after miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death, Christine O’Keeffe Lafser

A Silent Sorrow – Pregnancy Loss: Guidance and Support for You and Your Family (2nd ed.), Ingrid Kohn, MSW and Perry-Lynn Moffitt

Silent Grief: Miscarriage – Child Loss, finding your way through the darkness , Clara Hinton

A Woman Doctor’s Guide to Miscarriage, Lynn Friedman, MD

OTHER BOOKS:

Peace after Abortion, Ava Torre-Bueno (strongly pro-choice approach)

The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After and Abortion,

Candace De Puy, Ph.D. and Dava Dovitch, Ph.D. (strongly pro-choice approach)

Her Choice to Heal: Finding Spiritual and Emotional Peace After Abortion, Sydna Masse & Joan Phillips (strongly evangelical Protestant /biblical approach)

Catholic Women and Abortion: Stories of Healing, Pat King, ed.

Abortion and Healing: A Cry to Be Whole (strongly Catholic approach for those who have suffered after abortion and those seeking to help), Fr. Michael Mannion

BOOKLETS:

5 Steps Toward Post-Abortion Healing, Holly Francis

Inner Healing After Ending A Pregnancy: Love and Support for Women Who Have Terminated a Pregnancy, Marilyn Gryte (Centering Corporation)

Miscarriage: A Quiet Grief, Nelson & Ellen Kraybill

Miscarriage: A Book for Parents (Centering Corp.)

Miscarriage: A Man’s Book, Rick Wheat (Centering Corp.)

When your Baby Dies Through Miscarriage or Stillbirth, L. Gamino and A. Taylor Cooney (Augsburg, Hope and Healing Series)

Grieving Grandparents (Centering Corporation)

When Hello Means Goodbye: A Guide for parents Whose Child Dies before Birth, At Birth or Shortly After Birth, Pat Schwiebert, RN

Telling Your Child About Your Abortion, Pam Koerbel

GENERAL GRIEF RESOURCES:

Good Grief, Granger Westberg (Fortress)

The Courage to Grieve (general - not specific to pregnancy loss) Judy Tatelbaum

Grief Therapy for Men, Linus Mundy

Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times, Rabbi David Wolpe