"Group Launches Post-Abortion E-Cards"

[GreenPartyVoter]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A nonprofit organization has unveiled a series of electronic greeting cards that concerned friends and relatives can send to a woman after she chooses to have an abortion.

Like Exhale's confidential talk line for women who have had abortions, the six e-cards available on the group's Web site were designed to be nonpartisan and encompass the range of someone's potential responses to going through an abortion.

"Women having abortions are calling our line because often they don't have someone to talk to - it's a stigmatized issue," said Aspen Baker, founder and executive director of Oakland-based Exhale.

One card expresses sympathy, offering the gentle reminder that, "As you grieve, remember that you are loved." Another provides encouragement for someone who "did the right thing." Yet another strikes a religious tone with the thought that "God will never leave you or forsake you."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070314/D8NRLL580.html

[Mad_Dem_X]

1. I like that

"God will never leave you or forsake you." That's a wonderful, comforting message. (And one I personally believe in.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I was worried when I saw the headline. Thought it was gonna be a

fundagelical iron fist in a velvet glove "get in line" deal but it turns out to be something truly based in love, I think. :)

[bobbolink]

3. Some of us are badly in need of a "help line"!!

A Catholic nun friend of mine has had a bunch of cards printed up in Spanish with the message that they are loved after having had an abortion. She is very caring, and concerned about women who are left to feel abandoned and reviled.

Too bad ALL people can't be so caring.

I wish to hell there was somewhere for people like me to go to get the same message, when we've been abandoned because we're poor and of no use to the Dem party. We, also, need a "help line".

Thanks for the post... this is encouraging.