Pregnancy Counselling Australia
- 1300 737 732 (cost of a local call)
Pregnancy support 24 hour helpline. Free, confidential & compassionate counselling. Facing an unexpected pregnancy can seem overwhelming. Pregnancy Counselling Australia provides a supportive, confidential and non-judgmental counselling environment.
Caroline Chisholm Society
- (03) 9370 3933 (Melbourne metro) or 1800 134 863 (freecall outside Melbourne)
Provides free and confidential help to expectant mothers.
Pregnancy Assistance Frankston
- (03) 9770 6227
Pregnancy Assistance Frankston provides FREE and confidential emotional and material support for any woman who finds herself in a crisis pregnancy or suffering grief after miscarriage or abortion.
The Gianna Centre
(Bendigo) - (03) 5442 4644
Provides a support service for unplanned pregnancy and post abortion support.
Open Doors Counselling
- (03) 9870 7044 (Melbourne metro) or 1800 647 995 (freecall outside Melbourne)
Provides an independent, professional counselling and long term support service for individuals and couples affected by unplanned pregnancy. Also provides post abortion grief counselling.
Rachel's Vineyard
- 1800 063 510 (freecall)
Rachel's Vineyard is a confidential healing ministry for the many people, both men and women, who have been touched by an abortion experience. Offers a free confidential phoneline to talk to a professional counsellor.
Survivors of Abortion
A website offering information and guidance in decision making and healing from those having experienced an abortion.
The following books may be helpful:
Melinda Tankard Reist, Giving Sorrow Words: Women's stories of grief after abortion (Duffy and Snellgrove, 2000)
Burtchaell, J., Rachel Weeping (Harper & Rowe, San Francisco, 1982)
Hayford, Jack, I’ll hold you in Heaven. Healing and hope for the parent who has lost a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion or early infant death (Regal Books, USA 1990)
Michels, N., Helping Women Recover from Abortion, (Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Nathanson, S., Soul Crisis: One Woman's Journey Through Abortion to Renewal (NAL Books, New American Library (A Division of Penguin Books, USA), New York, 1989)
Reardon, D., Aborted Women, Silent No More (Loyola University Press, Chicago, 1987)
Reisser, Teri and Reisser, Paul, Help for the Post-abortion Woman (Life Cycle Books Ltd, 1994)
Selby. T., The Mourning After: Help for Post-Abortion Syndrome (Baker, Grand Rapids, MI, 1990)
Stanford-Rue, Will I Cry Tomorrow? Healing Post-Abortion Trauma (Revell, Fleming. NJ, 1986)
Symonds, M.. And Still They Weep - Personal Stories of Abortion, SPUC Educational Research Trust, UK, 1996
Winkler, K., When the Crying Stops: Abortion, the Pain and the Healing (Northwestern, Milwaukee, WI, 1992)
Victims and Victors: Speaking Out About their Pregnancies, Abortions, and Children Resulting from sexual Assault (The Elliot Institute, PO Box 7348-A, Springfield, IL 62791-7348, USA)
Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion (The Elliot Institute)
