Your Healing Place

S2E24 Can You Grieve After Abortion? Finding Healing Through Memorials


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In this episode of Your Healing Place Podcast, Mindy and Linda continue their conversation with Jenny as she shares the healing impact of memorializing a baby after a medically advised abortion. Together they discuss grief, closure, honoring children lost to abortion, and why creating meaningful memorials can be a powerful step in the healing journey.

Jenny shares personal experiences of creating memorials for her son, including placing a plaque at the National Memorial for the Unborn, and explains how acknowledging loss can bring validation, comfort, and hope. The conversation also explores the emotional struggles many women face after abortion, including feeling unworthy to grieve or believing they do not deserve healing.

This episode offers compassionate encouragement for women and families navigating abortion recovery, pregnancy loss, shame, grief, and faith. The discussion includes practical ideas for memorializing a baby such as memorial gardens, plaques, balloon releases, planting trees, online memorials, and family remembrance ceremonies.

Whether your abortion was medically advised or chosen under difficult circumstances, this conversation reminds listeners that healing is possible and grief is real.

Learn more about virtual abortion recovery and healing resources at An Even Place

Questions This Episode Answers

  1. Why is memorializing a baby after abortion important for healing?
  2. Am I allowed to grieve after a medically advised abortion?
  3. What are meaningful ways to honor a baby lost to abortion?
  4. How can memorials help bring emotional closure after abortion?
  5. How does abortion grief affect families beyond the mother?

Topics We Discuss

  • Healing after medically advised abortion
  • Memorializing babies lost to abortion
  • The importance of grief and emotional validation
  • Family healing after abortion loss
  • Creative ways to honor and remember a child
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Your Healing PlaceBy Mindy Lefaucheur