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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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women are instructed to keep a rose quartz to represent the abortedbaby. 51 For people involved with the occult, rose quartz <strong>is</strong> believedto aid forgiveness and help with sexual and emotional imbalances.Torre­Bueno recommends a similar exerc<strong>is</strong>e. To make theaborted baby easier to grieve, she suggests women make a collage torepresent the baby, 52 “Or endow a beautiful object or a worn stone,with your sense of the baby.” 53 She also offers that women may needto apologize to their dead baby and to form a mental picture of thebaby forgiving them. 54Offering women stones in place of their aborted baby <strong>is</strong> afamiliar ritual within femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality, a practice recently51Arwen Nightstar, “Ritual For Remorse After An Abortion,” Arwen’sGrimoire, http://www.an<strong>is</strong>optera.com/grimoire/abortion.htm.52Ava Torre­Bueno, Peace After Abortion, 2 nd ed. (San Diego:Pimpernel Press, 1997), 65.53Ibid., 66 (italics in original).54Ibid. 150.153

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