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[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]

Yeah, I don't buy this at all. Do you know any women who've had abortions? Other than those who come to your church or who you've met at pro-life events?[/quote]

This is funny. My resonse was neutral. I am an atheist and I can'tstand the religious right. I just know a ton of women who suffered in silence. Some have spoken to me because they know that I understand PTSD and they know that I am not religious. NEVER been to church, never been baptized, married another atheist. [/quote]

Well, the part where you said "The pain is immense and she will never stop thinking about her child, her little friend, who only she knew," made me scratch my head, because that is 100 percent not my experience. I just asked a friend about this and she laughed and said she never would have made it to medical school if she had had a baby in college. I'm sure that you have met people who have regrets, but I think that it is fair to say that most women do not. In fact, I think C.E. Koop did a study on this back when he was Reagan's surgeon general.[/quote]

There are really no good studies yet. There have been attempts to use the NHS data in Britain to look at how these women do, but has not been completed. They wanted to take a close look at the psychiatric visits in the abortion group, and in some way see if they are more depressed. BTW, the friends who have told me that they suffered, all talked about how they were the only ones who knew the child. One said that she has to pretend to be OK around her "friends". [/quote]

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