Politician describes letters from regretful post-abortive women
While arguing against unrestricted abortion, British pro-life politician John Corrie said in 1979: “I have received many letters from unhappy women. Many of them bitterly regret having had their...
View ArticleSocial worker denied women’s grief after abortion was real
From an Australian social worker identified as Penny: “I have seen women make this decision dozens of times. I had even seen some of them suffer afterwards, but I always firmly believed it was because...
View ArticlePro-Choice Author: Abortion carries “social shame” and “psychological burden”
From pro-choice author Melissa Harris-Perry: “… Abortion still carries tremendous social shame in addition to its personal psychological burden. Activists for reproductive rights have a hard time...
View ArticlePsychotherapist with 20 years experience describes post-abortion trauma
Mira Dana, a psychotherapist at the Women’s Therapy Centre in London, who has spent 20 years working with post-abortive women, says: “There are three general reactions women display after an abortion...
View ArticleCounselor at pregnancy center talks about women’s post-abortion trauma
Sally Thompson, who works at a pregnancy resource center counseling abortion-minded women and post-abortive women: “I would sometimes ask my clients to explain to me what an abortion is. I always...
View ArticleTherapist: Abortion “doesn’t allow space for mourning”
Psychotherapist Mira Dana, who worked with post-abortive women for almost 20 years: “Why would you feel sadness or loss about something you wanted to get rid of? On the surface it looks like a...
View ArticlePro-choice author admits women are “surprised” by feelings of loss after...
According to pro-choice author Miriam Claire, who wrote an entire book defending abortion: “Some women are surprised by the depth of their feelings of loss after an abortion, and they assume...
View ArticlePro-choice woman: the medical profession denies post-abortion trauma, but...
One pro-choice woman, who suffers emotional trauma after her abortion, wrote: “…for too long society and the medical profession have denied any negative aspects of abortion. That’s not helpful to...
View ArticleAbortionist admits some of his patients regretted their abortions
A doctor who did illegal abortions in the 1930s wrote in his 1939 book: “… I have performed operations later regretted by the women when they wanted children and for some reason could not have them....
View ArticleSurvey of post-abortive women shows their emotional trauma
The pro-life group Heartbeats conducted a survey of post-abortive women. They asked the women what they experienced after their abortion(s). 92% experience an emotional deadening, either feeling less...
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