Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Women who have had abortions due to fetal anomalies often describe pressure from their doctors to abort and little time to make a decision. Many receive poor information — including outdated or overly negative information about their child’s condition, and little or no information on resources or about those have successfully parented children with the same condition. And many struggle with the experience afterward, often for many years.

One woman who described herself as pro-choice wrote in the London Guardian about being being immediately sent off to a consultant after being told her unborn child had Down Syndrome.

“He then told us what the prognosis would be for the child,” she wrote. “Life expectancy of 30 or 40. Never being able to look after himself. Likely to have a serious medical problem all his life. And also what the prognosis would mean for [our two-year-old son]. Now a very happy child, he would have a completely different childhood with such a sick sibling.”

read the rest here:

http://afterabortion.org/2010/women-share-their-stories-of-abortion-after-prenatal-testing/

and you can read some of the testimonies from people who have come to our APD day here:

http://www.postabortionhelp.org/pre-natal/ppnWitnessA.html