A post-abortion woman wrote the following letter to the Guardian:
“The mental backlash has been enormous, and in all my consultations, not one person ever warned me of this. Even with the support of a firm marriage and a loving family, I came as close to a mental breakdown as I am ever likely to come, thus threatening the well-being of the family I was so concerned to protect.”
Letter to the Guardian women’s page, 19 July 1979
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 9
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