Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

By my friend Julie…

Abortion Hurts

Taken from the  American Association Of Christian Counselors  which is located   HERE.

By Julie Woodley
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping
for her Children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
Matthew 2:18

The British Journal of Psychiatry, September, 2011 states:
“Based on 22 studies, the results of this meta-analytic review of the abortion and mental health literature indicate quite consistently that abortion Is associated with moderate to highly Increased risks of psychological problems subsequent to the procedure. Overall, the results revealed that women who had undergone an abortion experienced an 81% Increased risk of mental health problems, and nearly 10% of the Incidence of mental health problems was shown to be directly attributable to abortion.”
The British Journal of Psychiatry (2011) 199, 180-186. Dol: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.077230

“This important statistical review accurately proves that the effects of abortion hurt women for long periods and in many unhealthy ways.”
To be able to grieve over your abortion may be one of the hardest things you have ever done. This is made especially difficult by a society that doesn’t allow us to grieve. Dr. Theresa Burke, in her book Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, writes, “As a society, we don’t understand abortion. We debate it. We pass laws about it. We argue about it as a moral and political issue. But we don’t understand it as a life-changing experience. In that latter regard, grief after an abortion is neither expected nor permitted in our society.”(1) This is a great national tragedy!

Dr. Julius Fogel, who is both a psychiatrist and an obstetrician who personally performed over 20,000 abortions, writes, “Every woman—whatever her age, background or sexuality—has a trauma at destroying a pregnancy. A level of humanness is touched. This is a part of her own life. When she destroys a pregnancy, she is destroying herself. There is no way it can be innocuous. One is dealing with the life force. It is totally beside the point whether or not you think a life is there. You cannot deny that something is being created and that this creation is physically happening….Often the trauma may sink into the unconscious and never surface in the woman’s lifetime. But it is not as harmless and casual an event as many in the pro-abortion crowd insist. A psychological price is paid. It may be alienation; it may be a pushing away from human warmth, perhaps a hardening of the maternal instinct. Something happens on the deeper levels of a woman’s consciousness when she destroys a pregnancy. I know that as a psychiatrist.”(2)

http://morethancoping.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/abortion-hurts/