They said it.
“In a retrospective study of 260 women, an average of nearly 11 years after their abortions, 51% reported having undergone a “dramatic personality change” following their abortions, of which 79% said the change was a negative one.”
David C Reardon, “Psychological Reactions Reported after Abortion” The Postabortion Review 2 no. 3 (Fall 1994): 4 – 8
Share on FacebookStudies show that the risk of an ectopic pregnancy is twice as high for women who have had one abortion, and up to four times as high for women with two or more previous abortions.10 Of those who have an ectopic pregnancy, 40 percent become infertile, and the odds of having another ectopic pregnancy are one in three. Remarkably, “Only 33 percent of women with ectopic pregnancy will have a subsequent live birth
“Ectopic Pregnancy: Prognosis for Subsequent Fertility,” www. physicianeducation.org. Accessed March 1, 2004
An ectopic or tubal pregnancy is a pregnancy where the baby grows in the fallopian tube. If not detected, the tube can rupture and this can be fatal to the mother.
Share on FacebookThe following took place at A Woman’s World Medical Center:
Sidewalk counselors noted that a post-abortive mother who had left the clinic and driven herself out of the parking lot (which I’m sure is a health code violation), drove herself back 20 minutes later.
Walking up the ramp to the front door, she dropped her keys. When she bent over to pick them up, she hemorrhaged a large amount of blood, and then left a trail of blood behind her all the way to the door.
The mother left the clinic again after a half hour, again driving herself out of the parking lot alone.
It is unknown what happened to her. The abortion clinic had previously been cited for 31 pages of health code violations .
Here are pictures of an abortion clinic employee mopping up blood. Apparently, seeing a pool of blood at the entrance of the clinic might be a turn off for some of their expected “clients.”
Jill Stanek “Clinic Had Woman Drive Home After Abortion, Hemorrhaging on Sidewalk” LifeNews.com 9/4/12
Share on FacebookA bill was passed in Virginia allowing for inspections of abortion clinics and requiring them to meet certain basic health standards. According to Brian Gottstein, spokesman of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli:
“The state has long regulated outpatient surgical facilities and personnel to ensure a certain level of protection for patients…There is no reason to hold facilities providing abortion services to any lesser standard for their patients. Even pharmacies, funeral homes, and veterinary clinics are regulated by the state.”
Yet pro-choice activists protested the law, maintaining that abortion clinics did not need to be regulated, even though veterinary clinics were being held to higher standards of safety. Showing a blatant disregard for women’s health, Tarina Keene of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia said:
“This is just a way to basically implement a political agenda. It’s not about making abortions safer”
Julian Walker “state can more strictly regulate abortion clinics” The Virginian-Pilot August 24, 2010
Share on FacebookNorine Dworkin-McDaniel told the story of her abortion by pill in Marie Claire. She was pro-choice and thought she would have no problems.
She supported the use of the abortion pill and thought it was a good thing
“From the moment it was approved in 2000, I believed in the abortion pill. Finally! Abortion would finally become what it always should have been: a private medical matter between a woman and her doctor. It held the promise of swift, at home termination. There would be no more gauntlets of protesters at clinics, because who would know which physicians were dispensing the pills? Even better, the pill would keep abortion accessible at a time when fewer gynecologists were willing to perform them out of fear of attacks.”
Dworkin – McDaniel eventually was faced an unplanned pregnancy. According to her, when she became pregnant, she was using cocaine and would “work all day, and party, party, party all night.”
She worried that her drug use would cause medical problems for the baby:
“No matter what I did from this point on, there would always be a chance that the baby would have problems – maybe physical ones, maybe psychological issues. I wasn’t willing to roll the dice with another life.”
“There was the surgical option of course. I’d had one in college (so you think I would’ve learned this lesson already) and I dreaded the needle that would be used to numb my cervix.”
“The Mifeprex literature described some cramping and bleeding, “similar to or greater than a normal, heavy period.” This sounded far more appealing than surgical abortion. A few pills, a couple of cramps, and it would all be over. We could move on with our lives.”
“Clinic staffers had directed me to insert the tablets into my vagina in the morning so I’d have the day to recover. I envisioned recuperating on the couch with some uncomfortable but bearable cramps and soothing myself with s bad daytime TV.”…
I never made it to the couch.
“Nothing – not the drug literature, the clinic doctor, not even my own gyno – had prepared me for the searing, gripping, squeezing pain that ripped through my belly 30 minutes later. I couldn’t even form words when Stewart [her boyfriend] called to check on me. It was all I could do to gasp, “Come home! Now!” For 90 minutes, I was disoriented, nauseated, and, between crushing waves of contractions, that I imagine were close to what labor feels like, racing from the bed to the bathroom with diarrhea.”
Then, just as quickly, it was over. The next night, I started bleeding. I bled for 14 days. A follow-up ultrasound confirmed that I’d aborted. And that’s when the problems really began.
I had been prepared for the possibility that the pill wouldn’t work and I’d still need a surgical abortion – that happens in about 5 to 8 percent of cases. I also knew that I might bleed so heavily I need surgery to stop it… [But] what blindsided me, apart from being battered by the mifepristone, with a huge, cystic boils that soon covered my neck, shoulders, and back. I was also overcome by fatigue – an utter lack of ability to do anything more strenuous than sleep or lie on the couch. My brain felt so fuzzy – English seemed like a 2nd language, and I couldn’t work. On top of all that came depression; I sobbed constantly. I wouldn’t leave the house. I stopped showering.
It was only when I described my symptoms to my gynecologist that I discovered my experience wasn’t all that unusual. (The Mifeprex literature didn’t even mention it) “I think it’s underreported, but probably one in 3 women have dramatic side effects,” he told me. My body was in total chaos – pregnancy hormones clashing with anti-pregnancy hormones clashing with stress hormones. “I’ve seen a lot of women go through it – I don’t want to call it postpartum, but post event melancholy that’s more dramatic than people want to admit.” He prescribed antidepressants. “One day, you’ll feel just like your old self.” It took 9 months.”
Dworkin – McDaniel describes going back to the clinic and talking to one of the clinic workers:
“We could have told you it wasn’t going to be easy,” a clinic staffer noted when I rattled off my complaints during my follow-up.
Why didn’t she speak up sooner?”
Norine Dworkin-McDaniel “BETRAYED BY A PILL” Marie Claire (US), Jul2007, Vol. 14 7, p184-186
Share on FacebookCounselor Ann Lastman discusses some of the emotional triggers that postabortion clients of hers have:
“The sound in common of a vacuum cleaner nearly always will trigger recall of those traumatic memories [of an abortion] ….
Clients have also mentioned that the noise of a kitchen blender will also do this. This usually results from the experiences of early gestation abortions where the clients are only placed under a ‘twilight sedation’ and are not unconscious….
Smell is one of the most powerful of our senses, so it makes sense that it will imprint so well in our memory, such as the smell of alcohol swabs or other substances used in a surgery.”
She also says:
“Contrary to the feminists who say that an abortion empowers women, in 17 years I have never heard one client tell me that they have seen a happy face when waiting for an abortion.”
Andrew Smith ‘Suction so powerful, it’s scary’: company advertises vacuum – on billboard outside abortion clinic” LifeSiteNews May 31, 2013
Share on FacebookNancyjo Mann, founder and president of Women Exploited by Abortion (WEBA), an early group for post-abortion women which had over 10,000 members and many chapters, gives her observations:
“One psychological effect we see almost all the time is guilt. Others are suicidal impulses, a sense of loss, of unfulfillment. Mourning, regret and remorse. Withdrawal, loss of confidence in decision-making capabilities. They feel that maybe they’ve made a wrong decision, maybe they can’t make another decision right in their life. Lowering of self-esteem. Preoccupation with death. Hostilities, self-destructive behavior, anger and rage. You could lose your temper quickly. A despair, helplessness, desire to remember the death date which is really weird, but you do that. You remember these dates very strongly. Preoccupation with the would be due date or due month. My daughter was due in early March, so in early March. It’s there…”
Nancyjo Mann, “Women From WEBA To Fight Abortions” The Washington Times, August 3, 1983. Quoted in Paul B Fowler Abortion: Toward an Evangelical Consensus (Portland, Oregon: Multnomah Press, 1987)
Share on Facebook
A chemical dependency counselor who is pro-choice says in the book on essays by pro-choice authors:
“I worked with adult men and women who had been abusing alcohol and drugs and coping with mental illness for the majority of their lives.… One of the key reasons people continue to abuse their bodies is because of some level of self hatred. Somewhere along the line, they did something that they hate themselves for. And, whether they think their parents won’t forgive them, or their God won’t forgive them, or whatever, they continue to punish themselves and become their own biggest executioner, and they become unable to let go of whatever has been trapped. I cannot tell you how many of them had unresolved guilt, grief, and/or anger relating to their own abortion or someone close to them having an abortion. I sat with more than one man while he cried because his girlfriend had an abortion. I sat with more than one woman who could not forgive herself for having had one.”
Lauri Wollner “Tiny, Golden Feet” in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 163 to 164
Share on FacebookPlanned Parenthood of Golden Gate was closed a while back, but a number of women posted negative reviews on Yelp. Here’s one example:
Share on FacebookI have never before had a bad experience with planned parenthood – the long waits are usually worth it for the discounted services and my depleted wallet rejoices at such things.
However, I was diagnosed flat out with HPV after an extremely cursory exam. Some sort of acid was applied to me without the doctor even asking permission – she just simply explained as she was applying it so I couldn’t even interject. There was no helpful consultation and one page flier was thrust into my hands as I began to ask questions.
After completely freaking out and spending the next 24 hours straight calling exes, researching online, and having a mental breakdown – I went to a more experienced (albeit far more expensive) gyno who assured me he saw absolutely no trace of HPV and thoroughly tested me for everything under the sun.
What if I hadn’t gotten a second opinion? The doctor was irresponsible – I don’t care how busy it was that day. I was glad to learn a scary lesson without the consequence, but that is ridiculous. To this day I think about whether or not I should have pursued the issue with PP, but I don’t think anything would come of it and I was just so relieved at my clean bill of health.
PLEASE! If PP diagnoses you with something, do NOT hesitate to get a second opinion.
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
Share on Facebook