{"id":188156,"date":"2018-09-11T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=188156"},"modified":"2018-09-10T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:46:01","slug":"fathers-explain-abortion-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fathers-explain-abortion-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers explain their abortion regret: ‘I have never been the same since’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion<\/a> is thought of as a women’s issue, but it affects men, too, and not always in a positive way. In fact, knowing their children died in abortion is downright traumatic for some men. One father, whose two children died in abortions, spoke about the regret he still feels<\/a>, and how he struggles being around babies because of the pain.<\/p>\n

The man, who remained anonymous, had been dating a girl when she became pregnant and decided to get an abortion. “I had very little say in the ensuing event and I should probably have walked away, but I couldn\u2019t,” he said. “I would have looked after the child, even if its mother didn\u2019t want me in her life – but that was not an option that was available. I sat with her during the procedure, not knowing what I was letting myself in for. It was very traumatic. We continued to see each other for a while afterwards but we drifted apart and lost contact for many years.”<\/p>\n

The abortion was seemingly not just traumatic for him — when he saw her again, years later, she admitted that she had undergone counseling to deal with her grief, and encouraged him to do the same. But he buried his grief, and began dating another woman, already a mother to two children, who also became pregnant.<\/p>\n