Dr. Forrest C Stevenson, certified marriage counselor of Brighton, Michigan:
“As a marriage counselor, I have too often shared with a couple in this sorrow. They love each other, but as they look at each other, I see the hurt in their eyes. I’ve heard a woman say, “Seven years ago my husband said I could not have this baby. “I’m still in school, I’m going to get my education first.” I did what he said and I had an abortion. I wonder what that baby would’ve been like. Would he have had curly hair like his daddy? Would he have been a happy baby? Would it have been a girl? Would it have been a boy? What could’ve happened?”
Too many times I’ve heard a young man say, “I demanded that my wife get an abortion, but I wish that she had not done what I said.” These people may love each other, but the hurt of the guilt that they share together has grown like a wall between them. It is so serious they can hardly build an adequate life. Their marriage is a nightmare because of shared guilt.”
John R Rice The Murder of the Helpless Unborn… Abortion (Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1971) 32
Although this is a very old reference, the emotional aftermath of abortion has not changed that much in the past few decades. You can read about men who regret their partners’ abortions here and women who regret their abortions.
Abortion still put a tremendous strain on couples’ relationships. One study showed that 80% of all relationships broke up in the aftermath of an abortion.
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