Category: Women and Abortion Regret

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.

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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?

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Pro-choice therapist Kim Kluger-Bell  says:

“Unresolved guilt over abortion and pregnancy losses can result in a tendency to behave in a self-destructive manner. Shame is a common accompaniment to many forms of pregnancy loss but can be particularly acute in the case of abortion, and can actually prevent grieving from ever taking place.”

Kim Kluger-Bell Unspeakable Losses: Healing from Miscarriage, Abortion, and Other Pregnancy Loss (New York: Harper, 1998) 136

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Pro-life author Teri Stanon told the following story:

“A desperate father came into a woman’s clinic seeking answers about his daughter’s suicide. This young college girl’s parents were utterly devastated when they were notified by the school that their daughter had taken her own life. They could find no logical reason why she would find herself in a place of such utter desperation. Their daughter was mature, well grounded, and responsible. They assumed she was enjoying college life. Her grades were good and she had many friends. Dad just needed answers. After the funeral, he visited the campus and talked to his daughter’s friends. To his dismay, he discovered that his daughter had gotten pregnant. Apparently, feeling that she had no other options, she had an abortion, only to discover that the abortion didn’t end her problem. It was only the beginning of guilt heavier than she could bear.”

Teri Stanon Two Minus One: Our Abortion Story (Meadville, PA: Christian faith Publishing, Inc., 2016) 57

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Psychotherapist Mira Dana,on postabortion grief:

 “Why would you feel sadness or loss about something you wanted to get rid of? On the surface it looks like a contradiction… The fact that it was your decision which caused the loss does not allow space for mourning.”

Mira Dana Abortion and the Emotions Involved (London: Women’s Therapy Center, 1984) 12

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A World Health Organization technical report acknowledged that women with a previous history of mental illness were more likely to suffer negative emotional aftereffects of abortion :

“There is no doubt that the termination of pregnancy may precipitate a serious psycho neurotic or even psychotic reaction in a susceptible individual.

Studies concerned with women who have had legal abortions in hospitals, mainly for psychiatric reasons, show that serious mental disorders arise more often in women with previous emotional problems. These, the very women for whom legal abortion is considered to be justified on psychiatric grounds, are the ones that have the highest risk postabortion psychiatric disorders.”

World Health Organization, Technical Report Series, “Scientific Group on Spontaneous and Induced Abortion” Geneva, 1970, 41 – 42

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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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Social worker Ava Torre–Bueno, on women’s depression and mental health problems after abortion:

“What you hear in the [pro-choice] movement is “Let’s not make noise about this” and “Most women are fine, I’m sure you will be too.” And that is unfair.”

Emily Bazelon “Is There a Postabortion Syndrome? Inside the Next Fight over Roe V Wade” The New York Times Magazine January 21, 2007

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Dr. Eloise Jones, a Toronto psychiatrist, on why she stopped referring women for abortions:

“An abortion has not helped the self-image of any woman I have talked with. I was listening to one recently. She was very frightened lest her teenage daughter discover what she had done, and since the abortion she has become increasingly fearful, hostile, and unresponsive to her husband. In her and in others I have been presented with psychosomatic illness… All kinds of neurotic disturbances and some deep depressive reactions.”

John Powell, SJ Abortion: the Silent Holocaust (Allen, Texas: Argus Communications, 1981) 124 – 125

Abortion has been hurting and damaging women for decades

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Dr. EG Daniels, Baptist minister:

“Abortion is not less than murder. Furthermore, people deep down realize this, for I have had women who were grandmothers come to me emotional wrecks because of the haunting memories of abortions committed earlier in life.”

John Grady Abortion: Yes or No? (TAN Books, 1993) Kindle edition

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