A searing indictment of the conventional wisdom that assures us that women do not suffer emotional or psychological trauma as a direct result of having undergone an abortion. I have no doubt that if 20 women read this article, more than half of them could directly relate to the feelings described by the subjects of the counseling session described, all of whom were in treatment for issues seemingly unrelated to their past abortions.
It's time we stopped pretending that the only victims of abortion are buried away as sad remembrances of the 'difficult choices' one makes in life. On the contrary, the living victims remain with us in ever greater numbers, men and women whose wounds are manifested in broken families, broken lives, substance abuse, eating disorders and a myriad of other ways that describe what happens when people need to numb a pain that simply will not subside on its own. Fortunately, help is available for those walking wounded who want it. There is a Balm in Gilead.
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