Free, no cost, abortion support group.

PURPOSE– promote relational, spiritual and emotional healing for women recovering from pregnancy loss due to abortion, regardless of how long ago or how many abortion procedures she experienced.

HOW– In a Christian, safe, non-judgmental & CONFIDENTIAL environment, women work through ‘Forgiven and Set Free’, a biblical study written specifically for abortion healing. Topics covered in the study: the pregnancies, abortion decisions, guilt, anger, forgiveness, depression acceptance, freedom, where is God in all this. 

WHEN –Eve Center Recovery groups are 10 week groups and begin 2X a year.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT – We aren’t about judgment, but about freedom. Eve Center’s HEART program is a safe place and has been for many women. Women have come through the program with one procedure, several abortions, mid and late term, abortions for fetal problems, abortions of twins, forced abortion, abortion after rape or incest, and the list continues. Each situation, like each woman, is unique. While their stories differ, they all had something in common: desire for the pain to stop.

We aren’t here to judge, but listen. We aren’t here to push, but to care.

Often as women, we aren’t talking about the way(s) that having an abortion(s) made us feel. Conversations typically halt at the decision to or not to abort. So where does that leave us women who’ve had abortion(s)?

The lack of dialogue around post-abortion care creates a vacuum. One that once you’re in, where can you go? In silence, you might experience some shame, depression, and/or guilt about your abortion(s).

If you’re here and this sounds like you, let us affirm you that you are not alone. At the Eve Center, we’ve been there.

HEART, our recovery group offering specifically for women who’ve had abortion(s), provides real hope and healing that lasts, and equips women to be leaders in the Greater Cincinnati community.

HEART is designed and led by women for women.

“What a wonderful God we have- He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the source of every mercy and the one who so wonderfully comforts and strengthens us in our hardships and trials.” 2 Corinthians 1:3

Psychological/emotional indicators of distress from abortion.

If you are experiencing any of these, have gone for counseling and nothing has resolved, maybe, just maybe your abortion is the source.

• Guilt
• Lower self esteem
• Nightmares
• Crying/depression
• Regret/remorse
• Frigidity
• Hostility/hatred of men
• Promiscuity
• Feeling dehumanized
• Abusive to children
• Despair/helplessness
• Eating disorders
• Can’t make decisions
• Suicidal impulses
• Can’t forgive self
• Preoccupied with death
• Drug/alcohol use
• Desire to get pregnant again
• Desire others to abort
• Suicide attempts
• Thwarted maternal feelings
• Lowered sexual desire/fulfillment in marriage
• Reduced care for personal health – don’t go to doctor
• Overprotective of children
• Can’t bond with children
• Competitiveness/codependent
• Self rejection
• Lack of purpose for living
• SSA – same sex attraction
• Anger
• Self- identity is based in abortion/s
• Destruction of faith
• Expectation of punishment
• Inability to complete anything
• Other
  This list has been compiled through caring for women who come to the HEART program.

When women join the HEART recovery group, they are often profoundly affected by the abortion procedures and how their lives have been impacted. Gently the facilitators lead the women through what led to the decision to abort, and careful review of the losses, including the loss of children. At the end of the group a celebration is held to honor God and thank Him for His forgiveness and freedom. The women now recognize that they were mothers if even for a short time. The women bring items of their own choosing and making to present to the group a token of their motherhood and children in heaven. Here are photographs of items through the years that the mothers have brought to HEART celebrations.