Seeking the 'Spirituality of Abortion' at Harvard Divinity School
A Harvard Divinity School student, Kassi Underwood, shared about her post-abortion pain and spiritual-but-not-religious efforts to transcend her grief in an article published on the school's website in March 2017. While the purpose of the article was essentially to promote Underwood's memoir, one can't help but lament the young woman's faltering attempt to mask the loss of her child with self-defined spirituality and Eastern religious rituals.
After describing her circumstance as a 19-year-old undergraduate student whose abortion wrought heartache, loss, and drug and alcohol addiction, Underwood set out on a journey to uncover what she calls the "spirituality of abortion" through religious rituals. She explained:
I didn't even know I needed to grieve until a Buddhist abortion therapist named Ava Torre-Bueno told me. She told me every choice involves loss....
Dr. Alan Cairns | 6/22/2009
Dr. Mark Allison | 1/20/2013
