139: Healing After Abortion ft. Gracey

The Catholic Feminist

Claire Swinarski

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Politics, Jesus, Catholic, Religion, Socialjustice, Christianity, Feminist, Women

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

#ShoutYourAbortion. That’s what we’re told, right? That abortion is a powerful, important procedure. It empowers women. It gives them strength. It gives them autonomy.

Today’s guest says hell no.

Gracey is a wife, mother, and post-abortive woman. She’s here to share her incredibly vulnerable story of getting her abortion, how she sought and received forgiveness from the Lord, and what she thinks could have possibly prevented her abortion in the first place. Gracey says we need a change of HEART to change this issue, and I couldn’t agree more. I think the pro-life movement has much to learn from women who have been through the procedure—like how we can best help women in crisis pregnancy situations.

*Note: this episode mentions suicidal thoughts. If you’re experiencing these thoughts for any reason, please call 1-800-273-8255 immediately.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 139. Today we're talking about
0:05.7	healing after an abortion. Today's episode is brought to you by select
0:10.0	international tours. If you're looking to go on a life-changing pilgrimage this year
0:14.4	check out select international tours.com slash feminist. Today's episode is also brought to you
0:20.4	by every Sacred Sunday to snag one of their beautiful mass journals go to
0:25.0	every sacred Sunday.com today.
0:30.3	Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, inspired, and intentional.
0:36.4	I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. In today's episode, we're speaking with Gracie. I'm only using her first name because
0:56.8	she wants to stay a little anonymous, which I completely respect and
1:00.5	understand, especially after having our conversation.
1:04.3	Gracie gets incredibly vulnerable and shares with us about her experience having an abortion
1:10.4	and what it was like to heal from that mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically,
1:15.0	I really got a lot out of our conversation and I think it's an important and powerful
1:20.2	one that we need to be having more often. So without further ado, let's get to our
1:25.0	conversation with Gracie. Gracie, welcome to the show.
1:29.7	Thank you so much, Claire. I'm so excited to be here.
1:33.0	Can you tell us a little bit about you and what your life as a Catholic feminist looks like?
1:38.0	Well, my life as a Catholic feminist looks very much like motherhood right now.
1:46.3	So I am the mom of four wonderful little boys and God has called me to be at home with them and so we're homeschooling
1:56.2	and taking care of them we're actually expecting our fifth little boy in May and so my life is just full of sword fights and lots of laughter and
2:11.4	lots of little boy hugs and mud.
2:14.0	Little boys are great.
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