{"id":219011,"date":"2020-02-28T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=219011"},"modified":"2020-02-28T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:01:56","slug":"abortion-advocates-women-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-advocates-women-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion advocates admit women struggle with grief after abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For decades, pro-life advocates have argued that abortion hurts women, and abortion advocates have claimed that women feel only relief after an abortion. To the abortion industry, any woman who does<\/em> suffer emotionally after an abortion was already struggling with her mental health prior to that abortion. They cite studies with major methodological flaws in failed attempts to prove their claims.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, however, pro-choice activists admit that abortion is<\/em> actually an emotionally painful experience. In a podcast with notorious abortionist Dr. Leah Torres, pro-choice activist Amanda Palmer spoke about how abortion can involve emotional turmoil. She said: <\/a><\/p>\n

Some abortions involve real grief. Some of them don’t …. [W]e don’t have rituals for abortion. Our culture just erases it. I love [to] imagine a world where going through an abortion, going through a miscarriage, is acceptable, understandable. Workplaces and the community around you make space for it. You don’t just have to hide, and clock in the next morning at 8, and pretend that nothing happened. Which we all know just leads to a not gone effect of suffering that ricochets into the entire universe and hurts everybody.<\/em><\/p>\n

Palmer has had three abortions herself, as well as a miscarriage. While she admits to mourning the baby she lost to miscarriage, she expresses no regret about her abortions.<\/p>\n

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