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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today my friend who had an abortion says she wished her "support" person had made some effort to talk her out of it. There were other options.[/quote]

She and a lot of people. Her voice won't drown out the extreme voices on either side. These women suffer silently and when she talks about it, it will be taboo. Her pro life friends will drown her with crap about Jesus and her pro choice friends will trivialize her feelings. Those with good professional experience like some OBs can understand. The pain is immense and she will never stop thinking about her child, her little friend, who only she knew. 
The extreme views make it hard for any logic to come into this. In the end there are women who are being hurt by a system that refuses to be intellectually honest. There IS post abortion stress, no different than PTSD. And for some women, that is not worth it, they would have rather struggled with the child than live through that. And these are NOT religious people, they are just humans with normal emotions. [/quote]

OP here.  This is the category my friend falls into. She has always considered herself pro-choice but didn't think she could ever have an abortion personally.  Then she got pregnant at a very inopportune time in an exceedingly bad relationship and health situation, and she made the choice that would spare the child a lifetime of difficulty. It was heartbreaking for her, and I doubt she will ever forget about the little life that was inside of her.  There was another young woman in the waiting room who was also there to have an abortion.  She started chatting with me while my friend was in the back.  She was perfectly upbeat and it was pretty clear that this was just like any other doctor's appointment for her, she was just bummed that her boyfriend couldn't get off work so they could go to Five Guys after. There seems to be a huge range of feelings women have about this procedure.  It doesn't do anyone any favors to diminish or hyperbolize the degree to which something like this can weigh on a person.[/quote]

Ugh. This is another of the fake abortion posts, isn't it. Guys, can you please go spam another board?[/quote]

No, I am the OP who spent yesterday afternoon in a planned parenthood waiting room while waiting for my friend's procedure. Just observing that different women going through the termination of a pregnancy experience it vastly differently. My friend spent the afternoon bawling her eyes out; this other young woman was cheerfully talking about Harry Potter. I don't judge the other girl at all. I find it offensive when people act like women should either have no feelings about terminating a pregnancy, or make the assumption that they are going to be broken forever by their choice. It is different for everyone and people should have more respect.[/quote]

So, you live in the D.C. area? Which clinic did you go to?[/quote]

I'm sure you won't, but OP - please don't answer this question.[/quote]

How come you're advising OP not to answer it? Because that undermines the idea that we're just a bunch of gals chatting informally about our lives here, rather than some people engaging in a stealth campaign to sneak anti-abortion views into a conversation?[/quote]

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