title: Motherhood Interrupted: Stories of Healing and Hope After Abortion
author: Jane Brennan
description: Jane Brennan, MS, has experienced abortion personally. She has devoted her private counseling practice to offering post-abortive women a safe place to reconcile unresolved grief and loss. Jane is committed to providing women hope and help for the journey.
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  Black Country, Present Day
  
  
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  Teresa Wyatt had the inexplicable feeling that this night would be her last.
  
  
  She switched off the television and the house fell quiet. It wasn’t the normal
  silence that descended each evening as she and her home gently closed down and
  unwound towards bedtime.
  
  
  She wasn’t sure what she’d been expecting on the late night news. The
  announcement had already been made on the local evening news programme.
  Perhaps she was hoping for a miracle, some last-minute reprieve.
  
  
  Ever since the first application two years ago she had felt like a prisoner on
  death row. Intermittently the guards had come, taken her to the chair and then
  fate had returned her to the safety of the cell. But this time was final.
  Teresa knew there would be no further objections, no more delays.
  
  
  She wondered if the others had seen the news. Did they feel the same way she
  did? Would they admit to themselves that their primary feelings were not
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