If we measure regret from other people who make poor decisions (regardless of the situation) they don’t realize the seriousness of the poor decision until much later, usually when another life issue brings it home. This is true of drugs, alcoholism, extra-marital affairs, child abuse, spouse abuse, you name it – the horror, sadness, regret, often do hit home, but later.

When working with women who have had abortions and who seek help later, they weep and cry and scream, and can’t undo what they have done to their child.

This experience is limited to women who have come to this realization, and sought counseling and/or abortion groups – but they are real women who may or may not have a religious affiliation, or specific socioecomic status affiliation – they were mothers who came to believe that they had murdered their children – this was their common secret that they mourned.

So, this is my experience, and to read that researchers are debating whether or not it has an impact of mental health? We know that women who miscarry mourn and grieve for their children. And then researchers try to tell us that it is possible when women choose to murder their children that it is easier? That it improves their mental health? That’s a perspective….

I would like to see a study on the perceived self-worth of a woman prior to an abortion, and post abortion yearly, for about 25 years.

Thanks for the chance to blog!

“And Mr. Chairman, I would like to enter into the record a study published — a 35-year longitudinal study which was just released this January from New Zealand. It followed women, 600 women for 35 years, from the time of abortion, that studied ill health effects.”