Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

I can still hear it echoing in my ears, “You’re not struggling because of your abortion; you’re struggling because your husband is an alcoholic.”

No matter where I sought help, I always seemed to get the same response when I talked about how my abortion had really impacted me. I knew it had and yet, each therapist was quick to blame my struggles on something… anything but my abortion experience.

Since that time, I have met countless other women who experienced the same thing. Instead of validation, they are made to feel crazy and alone in their feelings, as if participating in the death of your own child and having it bother you was not only unlikely, but unacceptable. This denial of reality has caused many women to live in depression, anxiety, and a host of other issues for years instead of getting the help they need to heal. It is a disgrace!

So now, we have another so called “study” from goodtherapy.org, "Is So-Called Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome a Myth," where they looked at 1,000 women who had abortions. “Researchers didn’t find any significant differences in mental health between women who had abortions and those who did not,” we are told.

They even go so far as to claim that, “Women in abusive relationships saw a decrease in violence following an abortion, while women who carried their pregnancies to term were more likely to experience an increase in abuse.” Is this from men who would beat them or even try to kill them if they did not abort? Of course, we are not given that information. Anything to shed a positive light on abortion.

It was not surprise to find, while looking up the list of researchers, that pretty much all of them are heavily involved in Global Reproductive Health promoting abortion throughout the world. One of the authors, Lori Freedman, Ph.D. even wrote a book, Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care. In fact, going down the names of authors you would find they all pretty much spend their lives as abortion advocates. Not the ideal people to be doing a study on the impact of abortion on women.

I suggest for their next study they contact Silent No More, or Operation Outcry, and read the testimonies of thousands of women who feel very differently from what this study would have you believe. Or perhaps contact one of the many ministries out there who are helping women who are hurting and suffering from the supposed myth of abortion harm. I for one would be happy to speak to them, but that will never happen.

In the end, it is really very sad. While these so-called professionals claim to care about the mental health of women, in reality, are only adding to their pain by continuing to deny the impact on millions of women who are suffering. Instead of helping, their misguided and poor studies do nothing but promote their own agenda, failing to give women the help they really need.

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