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- From: forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
- Subject: Re: PAS or Post Abortion Syndrome
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.184630.14470@noao.edu>
- Originator: forgach@gemini.tuc.noao.edu
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
- References: <1993Jan17.161708.17740@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:46:30 GMT
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- From article by margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis):
- > In garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >>In article forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >>#
- >>#Yes, of course. Why else would programs like "Project Rachel" be growing
- >>#so large so quickly?
- >>
- >>How large? How quickly?
- >>
- >>Oh, sorry, I forgot, this is Suzanne. She won't have any actual
- >>data to back up her claims. Never mind.
- >
- > And more importantly, what *is* "Project Rachel"? I thought it was a program
- > to bring women back into the church who had been excommunicated for having
- > abortions. If so, then if it's growing quickly that simply means that there
- > are a lot of Catholic women who have abortions but want to stay part of the
- > church, and has nothing to do with the mythical "Post Abortion Syndrome".
- > (If I'm confusing "Project Rachel" with something else, then please
- > enlighten me.)
-
- All that a woman who has had an abortion need do to return to the Church
- is to truly repent, to confess to her bishop (or in some diocese her priest),
- and to receive Christ's absolution. Project Rachel of course includes this,
- but it is also a program of counselling to help women deal with their grief
- for their lost child. If that grief weren't all too real, there would be no
- Project Rachel.
-