ITEST Webinar

Surviving Abortion
Inside and Out

This webinar was presented on October 21, 2023.

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Our presenters

Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson

Academic Dean – Pontifex University

Surviving Abortion as the Victim

Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson converted to Catholicism at age 38 due to a religious experience in the catacombs. She had previously earned a BA, MA, and PhD in Sociology. She has spent most of the rest of her adult life learning about the faith, earning a 90 credit MA in theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and then an S.T.L. at Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. She taught seminarians (over 200 at last count), religious, and lay people about the faith at Holy Apostles for 28 years. She currently teaches at Avila Institute, Holy Apostles, and Pontifex University, where she is the Dean of Faculty of Theology. Dr. Toolin-Wilson is the author of the book, Survivor: A Memoir of Forgiveness, where she tells the story of how her mother’s attempt to chemically abort her impacted her life.

Abstract

The most important event of my life occurred when I was eleven years old. That was when I found out that Ma and Grandpa tried to kill me, with the knowledge and agreement of many family members, including Pa.

On a hot summer evening in her kitchen, Ma told me after several hesitations, that in 1949 Grandpa bought a chemical at the drugstore that would make her lose me. She was annoyed that I didn’t understand what that meant. So, she told me that she didn’t want a baby and the medicine would make me go away. I asked her why the medicine didn’t work, and she explained that when she started bleeding, she was afraid she might die too, so she stopped drinking it. The fact that she was afraid of dying was the second most important event of my life.

I never felt the same about her or the family members. I suspect that her cousin, who had married a Catholic man, and had used medicines for years to prevent a pregnancy, had told Ma what medicine to buy.

Here I am 62 years later (that is, I am now 73 years old). I am the age my mother was when she passed. My husband Jimmy Toolin, a devout Catholic, died of cancer; my second husband Bill Wilson, who I managed to bring back to being a practicing Catholic, died of heart, liver, and kidney failure. Between them, if I count all the way to great grandchildren, I have 38 descendants.

Q&A Moderator

Dr. Stephen Sammut

Dr. Stephen Sammut received a B.Pharm from Monash University in Victoria, Australia and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Malta in Malta, Europe, and is currently a Full Professor of Psychology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, where he teaches and is also actively involved in research. His research efforts currently are focused on three primary areas: 1) research geared at investigating the neurological, biological and behavioral consequences of drug-induced abortion in an animal model, 2) research addressing the abortion-pill-reversal at the pre-clinical level, and 3) research addressing the development of an animal model for embryo transfer in ectopic pregnancy.

Webinar resources

Dr. Pat Castle’s Resources
LIFE Runners
liferunners.org/leaders
liferunners.org/speaking
LIFE Runners Daily Devotions

Dr. George Delgado’s Resources
Abortion Pill Reversal
Steno Institute
A case series detailing the successful reversal of the effects of mifepristone using progesterone
Progesterone Use to Reverse the Effects of Mifepristone

Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson’s Resources
Survivor: A Memoir of Forgiveness
Kiki Latimer’s review of Cynthia Toolin-Wilson’s Survivor: A Memoir of Forgiveness in Human Life Review

Other Resources
Federal judge blocks Colorado’s new law banning abortion pill “reversal”