{"id":7902,"date":"2003-06-09T13:36:05","date_gmt":"2003-06-09T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/06\/09\/post-abortion-counseling\/"},"modified":"2003-06-09T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2003-06-09T18:36:05","slug":"post-abortion-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/06\/post-abortion-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-abortion counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Here is a judgmental article on how abortion (<i>which isn&#8217; wrong after all<\/i>) counseling shouldn&#8217;t be judgmental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">When it comes to abortion, the issue is most often seen as a black-or-white, right-and-wrong, us-against-them political debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Aspen Baker realized this several years ago when she went to a bookstore looking for medical information after she had an abortion. What she found surprised her: all the books on abortion were in the politics section of the store, not the women&#8217;s health section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">This article talks about a counseling service called Exhale which describes itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not a political organization and we&#8217;re not a pro-choice organization,&#8221; Baker says adamantly. However, counselors must be committed to reproductive freedom and are screened on their ability to provide non-judgmental support to all callers, especially in regards to callers whose decisions fall outside social norms, such as callers who are young or have had several abortions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Exhale runs off two truths, Baker says: Abortion is legal and abortion is normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Yep, that sure is my definition of a group that is not pro-choice.  Abortion as reproductive freedom and stating that it is normal could <i>easily<\/i> be confused with the pro-life platform.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandtribune.com\/Stories\/0,1413,82~1865~1444762,00.html\">Full Story<\/a>][<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/899\">Exhale News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a judgmental article on how abortion (which isn&#8217; wrong after all) counseling shouldn&#8217;t be judgmental. When it comes to abortion, the issue is most often seen as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}