The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 8 of 12

Let us celebrate the 125th Knights of Columbus Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on Aug. 7-9th, 2007. Pray that wise decisions will be made and the truth proclaimed. The attached classic talk # 8 of 12 is to commemorate this gathering. The attached classic talk # 8 of 12 is to commemorate this gathering.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 8
Friday, Aug. 3, 2007
Fr. Greg Staab, What Happened at Fatima, M1273 at St. Joseph Radio (714) 744-0336 or 800-500-4556.
“A lot of horrible things can happen when a woman is having an abortion. And often times she doesn’t want to talk about it. In fact, studies have shown that there is {are} great similarities between women who have had an abortion and women who have been raped.
“There is a tremendous amount of shame that is involved with it and with that shame they don’t want to talk about it. And they keep it hidden. They carry that pain within them and that hurt which is within them.
“Something too, about it there is growing evidence for what is called P.A.S. It is called post-abortion-syndrome. And this becomes manifest often times only between 5 and 10 years after the woman has had the abortion. The reason for this is this: A woman who has an abortion is repressing. It’s too painful. What is she repressing? The fact that someone that she loved and someone deeply close to her died.
“And there is a grieving process. This is something I remember the first time that I had to go to the hospital and there was a woman who had a miscarriage. I was shocked at the tears of this woman. And how she was just incapable of being consoled at the fact of the death of her child. And I thought she never even knew this child, and yet there is a bond there.
“There is something that is very intimate that God himself has created. And when that child dies, she has to go through the grieving process. When she has an abortion she doesn’t permit herself to grieve and it’s all shoved out. It’s all repressed.
“What is the second thing that she is repressing? She is repressing the fact that she is in some ways is responsible and as I said she is not the only one. Who is responsible often times? The people around her pressured her to have an abortion. She wasn’t supported. She wasn’t helped. It’s just not her sin. It’s the sin of other people as well. But she takes on the guilt. She takes on all the guilt and it’s too much. It’s absolutely too much and so it all has to be repressed.
“Repression is something unnatural and so eventually it starts to surface. One woman, she had this incredible depression that she was going through. She went to a psychologist and sort of talking about it. And the psychologist helped her to realize that this due to an abortion that you had 15 years ago and that you never dealt with, and it just then began to surface.
“It will surface at times, a hardening of the maternal instincts, a lack of warmth, phobias, compulsive disorders, feelings of disquiet around children, night mares. Some studies have shown that about 50% of women who have had abortions have suicidal thoughts. About 1/5 according to some study have attempted it. Especially on the anniversary of the abortion, on the anniversary of the child who should have been born there is depression….”
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