Virginia Griffin, nurse, midwife, fertility counsellor and natural family planning teacher:
I’m pro-choice – but I believe very strongly in women’s right to decide NOT to have an abortion.
I think society puts too much pressure on women to have abortions for the slightest of reasons. …
I also believe it is too easy for women to say they’ll have an abortion because they won’t be able to cope financially. Here again, this is society putting on the pressure.
But women can get support through social services, and from centres such as ours which offer immediate support and continue it after the baby’s birth.
We’re still helping people whose mothers came to us 25 years ago…
The long-term damage can be devastating.
I see women who are still suffering from a termination they had decades earlier.
Having to help them pick up the pieces just makes me more and more convinced that abortion is wrong – not only because of the loss of a potential life but also because of the destruction of the mother’s life.
AnnBarrowclough “ABORTION; THIS IS WHAT OUR NURSES REALLY THINK…” Sunday Mirror (London, England) Aug 18, 1996
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