Often, when women feel grief or guilt after an abortion and want to mourn their unborn child, their grief is not understood or recognized by those close to them. For example, a book on post-abortion women and their testimonies said this:
“Julie, from Melbourne, said a friend told her not to be so ridiculous when she told of her plans to have a little burial service for the aborted baby in her backyard. “What you about? It was your choice,” the friend admonished her.”
Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 24
Comments like this only add to the pain and alienation women feel when they are coming to terms with their abortions. Sadly, this is a trauma that society, for the most part, does not recognize.
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How would you feel if you bury your own aborted child in your backyard? Won’t that be like tearing you apart?