A postabortion woman named Cassie wrote:
“I often wonder what happened with my baby. Where did they put her? Sometimes I wish I could’ve seen her, although I know that it would have been not only painful but I think I would’ve got out of my mind! Still, most of the times I wish I knew what became of her; was she buried or just thrown away like some piece of rubbish. Sometimes I think of just ringing the clinic and ask them what they do with all the babies, but then, what am I expecting they’ll tell me!… All through the day I wonder how she would look, and how it would’ve been having her around with my two sons… Whenever I’m asked how many children I have, I refrain from saying three!”
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 40
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