The Aftermath: Stories of God's Grace and Freedom After Abortion

by Sally Thompson, LaQuita Maxey

Need healing after your abortion? Trauma after an abortion is real and you don’t have to suffer in silence any longer. If you have had an abortion and experiencing the Aftermath of the complex emotions that having an abortion can cause, we want you to know there is help for you. There is healing for the loss after your abortion that most women and men don’t talk about with others. When a baby is aborted, a mother has lost a child. A father has lost a son or daughter. Grief is real for the many men and women that are silently dealing with the loss of their aborted children.The Aftermath Book is a collaboration of stories by nine women and a man that shows aftereffects of abortion. You will read stories of how the decision to have an abortion left physical and emotional pain. About how relationships were broken and how guilt and shame came from morals and values being ignored. You will hear about stories of redemption. You will then read about a journey with GOD and His forgiveness, grace, and love that He will restore your brokenness.Our hopes as you read this book you will be enlightened on the pain and trauma that the aftermath of abortion brings to our unborn children, the parents, and families. That it will bring understanding and compassion to those who don't understand why a woman would choose abortion. That it will help women who have had abortions not to walk in condemnation but receive God's love and his forgiveness. The ten contributing authors in The Aftermath of Abortion all started their healing process after going through a post abortive bible study. Like many of us we lived with shame, guilt, sadness, anger, depression and loss for several years. We want to bring awareness to the Aftermath of abortion and to share our stores of healing, deliverance and forgiveness from God. Let your healing process begin. Read the stories in The Aftermath book collaboration and know that God wants to heal you also. You are not alone.

155 pages, Paperback

Published March 25, 2021

About the author

Award-winnng author and anthropologist Sally Thompson received her Ph.D. at the Univ. of Colorado in 1980, the same year she moved to Missoula to start the archaeology program at Historical Research Associates. A decade later, she says, she began her real education. That was when she shifted her focus to working with Native communities as a consultant and collaborator.

She served as (1) Expert Witness for the Taos Pueblo Water Rights case; (2) Cultural Consultant to assess the cultural significance of the Badger-Two Medicine area in the traditional Blackfeet homeland; and (3) Expert Witness for the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes on the ARCO lawsuit regarding off-reservation treaty losses due to pollution of the Clark Fork River.

In 2001, she founded and directed the Regional Learning Project at UM focused on working with tribes to develop curriculum resources on history, geography and culture. During that decade, Sally interviewed over 200 elders from tribes all along the ancient trails that Lewis & Clark followed. When that program ended, she served as NAGPRA Coordinator for UM, with the humbling responsibility of repatriating human remains to the tribal communities of western Montana. She is currently working with State Parks and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall to improve interpretive information at Bannack State Park.

Sally directed a federally-funded a Teaching American History grant focused on teaching American History in the Northwest, with a viewpoint from the people and place, in addition to those better known perspectives of explorers, fur traders, missionaries, treaty-makers and pioneers.