Passing Them Off?

I joined a pastors' forum a couple of weeks ago to see if I could begin building relationships with some pastors and to begin dialoging with them about abortion recovery within the Church. There hasn't been a lot of conversation on the topic of abortion (no surprise there), but what I've found is that the mindset *seems* to be that it is a normal, acceptable thing to pass off those who are struggling with a past abortion to parachurch organizations. This tendency troubles me, although, once again I am not surprised.

It *seems* that the Church (in general) has an open-door policy for helping their members deal with "ordinary" life issues like marital problems, parenting issues, even addictions like pornography and substance addictions. But oddly enough, when the word abortion arises, the protocol is to send them somewhere else. Am I the only one that finds this odd and even, shall I say, unacceptable?

Any thoughts on this? Have any of you experienced this within your church? How can we help to change this attitude?

Note: I do not in any way oppose parachurch organizations that provide abortion recovery. I am grateful beyond words for all those who work diligently outside the "walls" of the Church to bring healing to those wounded by abortion. I enthusiastically support their efforts and their heart in this much-needed ministry.