{"id":208913,"date":"2019-08-21T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=208913"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T20:36:14","slug":"abortionists-women-men-bereavement-abortion-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionists-women-men-bereavement-abortion-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionists admit women and men may suffer ‘bereavement’ after abortion: ‘This is a death’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most pro-abortion activists deny that women suffer emotionally after abortion. Pro-choicers claim \u201cpost-abortion syndrome\u201d is a myth and that most women feel only relief. They often point to flawed studies based on questionnaires that claim only a small minority of women have emotional problems after abortion. These studies almost always cover a very brief length of time\u2013 usually just weeks or months after the abortion. They also have biased sample selection and a high attrition rate, with many women dropping out between the first and last questionnaires. The results of these studies, therefore, are questionable.<\/p>\n

Most pro-abortion activists claim women don’t suffer after abortion. But some medical professionals acknowledge that women do suffer post-abortion trauma. A 2014 textbook for abortionists, “Abortion Care,” admits that women can be traumatized by their abortions and that they sometimes need therapy, even many years later:<\/p>\n

Women and men can suffer the full impact of perinatal bereavement after an abortion. The unique aspect of grief connected with abortion is that there is no tangible person to mourn. … Therapists can find that buried feelings from past negative experience of miscarriage or abortion may surface years later \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Some women recognize a need for postabortion counseling prior to the abortion. Others may feel that they do not deserve any support, as they have been responsible for \u201ctaking\u201d a life and may not return for postabortion follow up of any sort.<\/em><\/p>\n

Women need to know that they can go for counseling days, weeks, months or years after the abortion. Some will feel numb afterwards and only begin to question their decision or feel unhappy when they reach a significant milestone, e.g. anniversary of the abortion, or the due date had the pregnancy continued.1<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n