Until very recently, there were very few places that women could go if they suffered grief and guilt after their abortions that were not affiliated with the pro-life movement. There still are not many. Pro-choicers tend to cling to the belief that abortion is beneficial to women even to the point of ostracizing women who regret their abortions. You often hear pro-choicers claim that any woman who has emotional problems after her abortion was mentally ill before her abortion. In this way they blame women for their own problems caused by their abortions.
A woman who shared her abortion pain in a story in The Age in 1992 described trying to get help from a pro-choice organization:
They said the reason (that you are hurting) is that you’ve got stuff in your background that you need to resolve. But I don’t think I’ve got unfinished business.
Jane Cafarella, “The heartache of abortion,” The Age, Aug. 28, 1992, p.14.
This is an old reference, but many pro-abortion groups still hold to this belief.
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