 It is not necessary to paint a bleak picture for ever woman who has experienced an abortion. For example, some women report that their past abortion has had no unfavorable effect on them. It is very good for you. But this information is for those women who do experience unexpected negative fallout after an abortion experience.
After an abortion, lots of women are not allowed to disclose their feelings of loss or regret. Consequently grief is shortened or unresolved. The tears and feelings are stuffed. Negative reaction can be experience immediately, days, weeks, months or years later. It seems that a mother cannot take part in the death of her unborn child and remained unaffected.
Lots of women have acted opposing to their beliefs about themselves in turning to abortion. When a person disrupts their chief values, feelings of guilt and shame are often experienced. Often these feelings do not just leave, a person may need to 'self-medicate' with anything that she hopes will reduce the pain or make her forget. When trying to numb the pain, many women will start experiencing sleep or eating disorders, enhance drug or alcohol use and abuse, and distance self from family and friends.
In actual fact time does not heal – it allows perfecting coping skills – often these coping skills are self-destructive.
"In the clamor for liberalization of abortion laws, 'side effects' of the procedure are sometimes overlooked, both physical and mental injury may result from legal as well as illegal abortion." the World Medical Journal 1966. "Aside from the fact that abortion is the taking of a life, I am also mindful of what was brought out by our psychiatrists – that in almost every case abortion, whether legal or illegal, is a traumatic experience that may have severe consequences later on." Dr. Mary Calderone, said in 1967 to interviewer. (Dr. Calderone is an abortion advocate)
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