Dr. Mahkorn also found that, in the group who carried their pregnancies to term, the majority saw their attitude toward the child improve consistently throughout the pregnancy. Some remained ambivalent throughout the entire pregnancy, but for none did their attitude grow worse. None, at the end of the pregnancy, wished she had decided on an abortion. Abortion therefore inhibits the healing to the rape victim and reinforces negative attitudes. I have always been against abortion all my life.
People think that whenever anyone is raped, they have to have an abortion.
My social worker just kept telling me all kinds of things to encourage me to have the abortion. They didn t give me any other option except to abort. The doctor and social worker who led me to have the abortion shouldn t have. I would rather have gone on and had the child anyway on my own account. But they pressured me into the abortion, saying welfare wouldn t pay me for giving birth, but would pay for the abortion since they were saying I was going to die because I was diabetic.