Pro-Choice author Miriam Claire lists the following as psychological effects of abortion:
“Depression: some women get into a state of depression which could be described as a general sense of hopelessness and diffused (unfocused) feeling of blackness… Feeling bad about yourself and your life and your environment, but without actually knowing what it is – a state of no specific emotion but this “darkness”… Feelings of worthlessness… and that nothing is of much importance… [Other reactions may be] Fear of Sexuality… Many women need time after an abortion before they feel relaxed and able to have sexual relationships again because they fear another abortion… Envy: Often women feel envious of other women who have babies after the termination… Some women will refrain from visiting their friends who have newborn babies as they feel it is too painful to be with them.”
Mira Dana Abortion and the Emotions Involved (London: Women’s Therapy Center, 1984) 14 – 17
Quoted in Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 18
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