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Call for Catholic abortion trauma agency ■ By Anthony Barich
Abortion Grief Counselling Association national director Julie Cook has called for an Abortion Trauma Catholic Health Care organisation to help those affected and thereby reduce future abortions. Ms Cook told the Walking With Love symposium at Floreat Forum on February 16 that the organisa-
tion would be a “tangible statement of the Catholic Church’s commitment to the recognition and care of women and men traumatised by abortion”. The Walking With Love symposium was one of many being held in each State as an initiative of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to discuss alternatives and responses to abortion. Ms Cook said such an Abortion Trauma Catholic Health Care agen-
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cy would galvanise concern many professionals feel about the psychological safety of abortion. She said it would promote a social environment that is “willing to listen to and support those suffering because of abortion and those pregnant and in crisis”; and said it is important that the organisation’s name includes the word “Catholic” due to the “profound spiritual wound associated with abortion”.
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“The message this implies is that Catholics care and understand,” she said. “Those traumatised by abortion are particularly sensitive to perceptions of judgement and often feel Church-goers, particularly Catholics, will look down on them. “For their own mental health, they stay away from churches or put on a false front.”
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