For more instructions click here. Maybe you've come to this site because bad feelings about a previous abortion have recently come up and just won't go away. I'm really glad you're here, because so many women are finding help today for the pain of a past abortion, and I hope today will mark the beginning of your recovery process. This year, thousands of women will enter therapy because they are suffering from feelings of guilt and depression about a past abortion. They find themselves struggling to turn off the bad feelings connected with an abortion that may have occurred as long as two or three decades ago.
Some women have a lot of anxiety about later fertility and childbearing.
And, sadly, many of these women have come to believe that they deserve every bad thing that has happened to them since the abortion. Recently, therapists who specialize in post-abortion counseling have noticed an influx of men coming to counselors, expressing their grief over a past abortion. In addition to all the issues faced by the woman, a man may be dealing with incredible anger over his inability to have stopped his wife or girlfriend from aborting his child. Or he may be experiencing a tremendous amount of guilt for not having done more to express his desire for the woman to carry their child to term. Or he may be feeling endless remorse for having been the one to force the abortion decision.