Category: Women’s Health

Dr. Thomas W Hilgers says:

“My medical practice is in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine with a special emphasis on infertility, reproductive disorders, natural family planning and research. Within that context, I see the aftermath of abortion on a regular and routine basis. It is not difficult to see the tears and the regret pour forth with ease when the issue is gently raised and discussed. One has to be blind – and that is one of our problems – not to be able to see these difficulties.”

Thomas W Hilgers, M.D. “Confronting the Contemporary Medical Contradictions: to Nurture or to Destroy the Pre-Born Child” in Michael T Mannion, Ed. Post – Abortion Aftermath (Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1994) 59

An article in the publication of Feminists for Life says:

“Kris Bercov, a Florida therapist who states that abortions are “sacrifices we make for our own selves,” nevertheless admits that abortion hurts women. In her self–published book “The Good Mother,” she proposes a farewell ceremony for the aborted child that includes coming to grief with the pain caused by the abortion and giving the child a name. Says Bercov, “women are good, we love our children – even sometimes the ones we abort.”

“Prochoicer Admits Abortion Hurts Women” The American Feminist Vol 1 No 1, Summer 1994

Pro-life author Maria Gallagher quotes researcher Priscilla Coleman:

A researcher at Bowling Green State University, Priscilla Coleman, told the Toledo Blade that approximately 10 percent of women who undergo abortions experience psychological problems as a result.

Coleman says:

“It’s that 10 percent with a common procedure that just keeps nudging at me. I think that’s a group we really need to look at more closely. Ten percent of 1.3 million women. [the number of women who abort every year] How could we ignore that? If it was any other medical procedure it would get more attention.”

From the author:

Coleman has co-authored a study which compares psychiatric hospitalizations of women who abort versus women who give birth. The data for the study, which was published in Canada’s most well-respected medical journal, came from California’s Medicaid program, MediCal.

The study showed that women who had had abortions were much more likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric illness during the four years after pregnancy

Maria Gallagher “Abortion Advocates Discount Emotional Problems After Abortion” LifeNews.com January 27, 2004

Author Mary Kenny tells the following story:

 “When Gina Newson was preparing her program for Channel 4, she happened upon a woman who was exceptionally serene about her abortion. The woman was, indeed, almost a model of positive reaction. She had two children and did not want any more. She had very nearly forgotten about the abortion. To oblige Gina Newson, she took out an old diary to check the details. “Took the children to school,” she had noted. “Left the car in the garage. Checked into clinic for TOP” (termination of pregnancy). As she reviewed these banal events in her well organized agenda, all of no consequence, suddenly tears began to fall. And then she cried a lot.

Nobody knows what the consequences of abortion are. Sometimes, that includes the woman whom it most concerns.”

Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 34

The National Silent No More Awareness Campaign was founded by Georgette Forney of National Episcopalians for Life (NOEL).Silent No More is an organization that allows women to tell their stories of abortion regret and sadness. Forney says:

“I had been contemplating the lack of women’s voices…the media portrayed groups like the National Organization for Women and NARAL [National Abortion Rights Action League, Now NARAL Pro-Choice America] as representing women. But I knew they didn’t represent me or the women who were contacting me.”

Georgette Forney was being contacted by many women who regretted their abortions. There are now thousands of women who have told their stories through Silent No More. They have said that they did the wrong thing when they had an abortion. Silent No More helps with their healing and gives them a platform to  speak out.

Lynn Vincent “Victims of their own choice” World Magazine April 09, 2005

The Silent No More website is here.

From a medical textbook titled Abortion by Malcolm Potts:

“The true emotional consequences of abortion for the individual woman can never be known to her physician.”

Quoted in: Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 10

This textbook claims that no medical professional can predict how a woman will deal with her abortion. If it’s true that the abortionist doesn’t know how an abortion will make a woman feel in the future, should he do it?