One of the greatest friends to women died suddenly just after Easter Sunday. Vicki Thorn was the founder of Project Rachel, a post-abortion-healing ministry. “She was a voice for us when we were not able to speak yet,” Theresa Bonapartis, who had an abortion and now works with women who have had one. “She heard us when others did not want to listen and definitely opened the door of healing in the church.” Project Rachel and other ministries, including Bonapartis’s Lumina, are internationally available now, but that’s because Thorn started the essential work.
Thorn’s heart for women who have had abortions began when she was in high school, before Roe v. Wade. Abortion was not legal, but it was available. As a senior, she befriended a junior who had had an abortion — and that wasn’t her only pregnancy. She chose adoption. She was in tremendous pain. “I can live with the adoption” she often told Thorn. “I can’t live with the abortion.” Years later, Thorn told me her “words are etched in my heart.” That early friendship was clearly formative.
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