Vicki Thorn, who died on April 20, 2022, is remembered as a "fierce advocate" for the unborn and those suffering in the aftermath of an abortion. / Screenshot from Notre Dame YouTube video tributeWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 21, 2022 / 07:52 am (CNA).When Vicki Thorn was a Catholic teen in rural Minnesota, a close friend confided to her that she d gotten pregnant a year earlier and that her mother had arranged for her to have an abortion."All I could do was just love her and be present to her, and make sure she was OK," Thorn would recall years later. "But it was a life-changing experience for me, in understanding that abortion was not a non-event, that it left enormous footprints in someone s life, and enormous pain."The encounter later inspired Thorn to found Project Rachel, a groundbreaking post-abortion healing ministry that started in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and has since spread to dioceses across the U.S. and around the world. The initiative s
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