Pro-choice writer Cara J. Marianna interviewed women who had abortions. She found that the way a woman initially felt right after her abortion did not always reflect how she would feel about her abortion months or years later.
She says:
“A woman’s immediate response to the abortion did not necessarily have a direct correlation with her later interpretation of the experience. Mary described her abortion as ‘amazingly unintrusive.’ Later in the day she had a negative emotional reaction and called her best friend for support.”
Cara J. Marianna Abortion: A Collective Story (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) 110
Some pro-lifers have noted that women who initially felt satisfied with their decision to abort can suffer from severe emotional trauma many years later. Sometimes, something acts as a trigger. This could be a subsequent pregnancy, a close friend or relative having a baby, or a religious conversion.
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