A woman named Maria had an abortion and suffered emotionally afterwards. A year after her abortion, she was so distraught that she called the clinic and set up a follow up appointment. The clinic worker she met with was cold and unkind, and even tried to steer her away from a pro-life group that helps postabortion women, putting political ideology ahead of her patient’s healing.:
“I resent not being told that having an abortion had aftereffects. Late last year I went back to the abortion clinic for counseling. The lady I spoke to made me feel like an idiot when I cried and said I wanted to die. I asked her about [the pro-life group] Women Hurt by Abortion. She said not to contact them. She was not impressed that I rang for counseling so long after my abortion. It was like, “What do you want?” They don’t want to see us again, once we have an abortion.”
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 120
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