The patient must look at how she handles her life. Yes, but one aspect of denial is the idea that the aborted baby was not a person. For a person in crisis, it is easy to buy into the idea that the fetus is just a piece of tissue. But this tissue in the woman's uterus is not in any sense her tissue. In order to resolve grief, the woman must admit that a child was aborted.
Abortion delivers a body blow to the meaning of life.
This article originally appeared in the American Association of Pro-Life Pediatricians Newsletter, Autumn 1990. Reprinted by permission in the Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change Newsletter, Vol. Copyright 2000 California ProLife Council, Inc.