{"id":3587,"date":"2009-09-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:15:40","slug":"an-essay-by-my-friend-theresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"An essay by my friend Theresa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa Bonopartis is the Director of Lumina, a service for post-abortive women. Besides counseling women, she conducts workshops for clergy and counselors who are serving women who&#39;ve had abortions. <\/p>\n<p>Here she addresses an interesting issue; how pro-choice\/pro-abortion advocates often blame religion for instilling guilt over having an abortion. It&#39;s a short essay; hit the link to read in it&#39;s entirety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/site\/article\/19064\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Commentary: I Will Not Apologize for My Post-Abortive Faith: NCRegister<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Oftentimes, we post-abortive people of faith feel we have to apologize for our faith. I, for one, refuse to apologize for the role my faith has played in my life \u2014 whether it comes to healing after abortion or any other issue. My faith is not a problem that instills guilt in me. It is a gift that brings me life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa Bonopartis is the Director of Lumina, a service for post-abortive women. Besides counseling women, she conducts workshops for clergy and counselors who are serving women who&#39;ve had abortions. Here she addresses an interesting issue; how pro-choice\/pro-abortion advocates often blame religion for instilling guilt over having an abortion. It&#39;s a short essay; hit the link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}