Authors James Bretzke and Monika Rodman told the following anecdote in “America”, November 6, 1999
Quoted in Paula Vandegaer “Postabortion Emotional Problems Harm Women” in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)
“When a group of young professional women gathered to discuss a recent work on women’s sexuality, each confessed her reasons for not having begun to read the agreed-upon work. Three of the four attributed their struggle to a particularly painful experience: they had had abortions.
All three women were Catholic by upbringing, if not according to their current spiritual practice, and all were college age at the time of their abortions. While they generally felt they had made the best decision they could at the time, the three expressed deep, unresolved pain over their abortions and said they struggled to find “forgiveness” for those decisions. Pro-choice rhetoric aside, they appear to have suffered in abortion a deep wound to their womanhood, a wound that also struck at the heart of their spiritual life.”
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