Many women suffer from chronic depression, anger, bitterness, loneliness, or low self-esteem, yet never realize it until undergoing therapy that these problems stem back to their repressed abortion experience . Guilt is what an individual feels when she has violated her own moral code. You are a desperately wicked person. Most of the remaining symptoms that follow are a result from listening to that tape day in and day out. Chronic anger, resentment and rage at others and at themselves hit the abortive women.
Interpersonal relationships become difficult or impossible to handle.
Many report that they have been unable to put their abortion out of their minds. Nightmares about their experience, the loss of the child, the feeling of abandonment is a repeated occurrence in post-abortive women. Much like other ills of our society, after you ve done it once, it becomes easier the second time, and so on. Even more so because we live in a country that supports abortion and claim it s a woman s choice, because it s her body. The psychological damage caused by abortion is practically impossible to quantify.