{"id":284893,"date":"2023-02-09T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=284893"},"modified":"2023-02-08T22:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T04:50:16","slug":"abortion-trauma-sadness-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-trauma-sadness-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion caused Carolyn extreme sadness and shame: &#8216;I felt some days I was going mad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Place-Called-Shame-decision-consequences-ebook\/dp\/B0BLQGJ6L1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her 2022 memoir<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, British author Carolyn Parker, who became pregnant in the late 1970s, tells her abortion story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parker became pregnant during a time when there was much stigma against unmarried mothers. Her high school\u2019s policy discriminated against pregnant and parenting students, and teens who became pregnant were expelled. If they came in for exams, they were led to a private room and then escorted off campus as soon as they were finished. They weren\u2019t allowed to interact with any other students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this level of prejudice and punishment, many teens chose abortion \u2014 the only way of escaping such treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parker was pregnant at 19. The doctor who discovered her pregnancy discouraged her from marrying her boyfriend and arranged an appointment for her with an abortion facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Granted an Abortion Despite the Law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reproductiverights.org\/sites\/crr.civicactions.net\/files\/documents\/Great%20Britain%20-%20Abortion%20Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">British law<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, abortion is legal only if:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026 two registered medical practitioners are of the opinion, formed in good faith\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a) that\u2026 the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family; or<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(b) that the termination is necessary to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ground (c) is a threat to the woman\u2019s life, and ground (d) is a disabled baby.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In reality, the law is interpreted so loosely that virtually every woman who wants an abortion is granted one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parker explained, \u201cIt was agreed that I met the criteria; how, I don\u2019t know! It looked as if there was a loophole somewhere that allowed them to sign my unborn child\u2019s death warrant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-283198 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On an Abortion \u201cConveyor Belt\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before her abortion, Parker recalls sitting with her boyfriend \u201cJ\u201d filled with a \u201csense of pride and excitement\u201d about her baby. But abortion was the only solution offered to her. She said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was on the teenage unexpected pregnancy conveyor belt chugging through the system as if I was a piece of meat that needed trimming, just a number, an unfortunate occurrence that needed to be swept under the carpet and forgotten about.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctor even told Parker\u2019s principal that she was being treated for stomach problems, and instructed Parker to stick to the story.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctor made all the arrangements and told Parker what to do. Parker explained, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[I]t was all going so fast with no time to reflect. Everyone was pushing me along as if on a plank in the pirate tales of my childhood, pushing me closer to the end of the board to the point of no return, regardless of my thoughts, my feelings, my faith and the fact that I felt this was against everything I believed was ethical and right.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Traumatic Abortion\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parker herself was adopted, and she was haunted by the thought that her birth mother could\u2019ve aborted her. She recalled<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the \u201ccold, harsh atmosphere\u201d of the abortion facility. \u201cI wanted to change my mind many times that day, to speak up for my unborn child, but I was too scared to rock the boat,&#8221; she said. &#8220;At no point had anyone suggested keeping the baby was an option to be seriously considered, quite the opposite.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she woke up from the anesthesia after her abortion, she learned she had screamed throughout the procedure despite the anesthesia. Abortion workers had to hold her down on the table as she struggled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abortion\u2019s Aftermath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parker returned to college after the abortion and tried to resume her life, but she struggled with emotional trauma. She began having outbursts of anger at J, sometimes throwing things. She said, \u201cCollege became less enjoyable, and I began to struggle with the work. I didn\u2019t fit in somehow, I felt like an outcast from the girls I was sharing a flat with and I thought they disliked me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking back, Parker believes she was suffering from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. She describes bursting into tears for no apparent reason and finding her life at college \u201cunbearable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Parker, \u201cEverything looked bleak.\u201d Her school assignments suddenly seemed much harder, and she floundered academically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At one point, she ran away. J convinced her to return to school, and she met with the principal but didn\u2019t tell her the reason for her emotional struggles. The principal convinced her to finish school, and she did, but she continued to struggle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I still had flashbacks of that day I gave up on my unborn child, with pangs of guilt, sadness and shame,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I still found these were triggered by soap opera storylines, seeing new mums in the park at weekends, special days like Mother\u2019s Day and Father\u2019s Day and walking into church, which brought my guilt quickly to the surface.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Postpartum Depression<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After graduation, she and J got engaged. \u201cI thought the dark days immediately after the termination were behind me,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but I was to realise several years later on that they hadn\u2019t been completely buried.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trauma resurfaced for Parker when she gave birth to her daughter. She explained that she suffered severe postpartum depression:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember bawling my eyes out most of the day. I didn\u2019t want to hold my baby, feed her, bath her [sic] or change her, I just wanted to go to bed and hope it was all a dream. I wanted to give her back\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I felt some days I was going mad. I could only hear crying in my head, and I couldn\u2019t stop it\u2026 I sank deep into a pit of despair.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctors prescribed antidepressants and a Christian counselor helped her come to terms with her abortion and other traumatic experiences in her life. Thankfully, Parker was able to recover from her depression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parker\u2019s story shows that abortion can have a negative impact on a woman\u2019s life and illustrates how young women are pressured into abortions.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/coerced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studies show<\/a>\u00a0that 64% of post-abortive women felt pressured to abort. At the same time, 67% received no counseling before undergoing the abortion and 79% received no information about available alternatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: Carolyn Parker <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From a Place Called Shame <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Fuzzy Flamingo, 2022) 39, 40-41, 50, 54, 55-56, 63, 65, 93, 99-100<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her 2022 memoir, British author Carolyn Parker, who became pregnant in the late 1970s, tells her abortion story. Parker became pregnant during a time when there was much stigma against unmarried mothers. Her high school\u2019s policy discriminated against pregnant and parenting students, and teens who became pregnant were expelled. 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