Pro-choice activists like to point to women’s testimonies that claim that they are happy after their abortions and do not regret them. What they ignore is that often guilt and grief set in many years later.
“Between 60 and 70% of women who eventually confronted negative feelings about their abortions admitted that there was a period of time during which they would have denied to others, and themselves, any regrets or negative feelings. On average, this period of denial was about 5 years, with a low of one month and a high of 20 years.”
David C Reardon, “Psychological Reactions Reported after Abortion” The Postabortion Review 2 no. 3 (Fall 1994): 4 – 8
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