Years will pass before she relaxes her guard to become herself again. No one claims that abortion is good. Public opinion looks aside, allowing the recognized evil only because it appears to be unavoidable. No one brags about it. Respectable doctors don't advertise what they do on request.
Women yield their bodies to the operation in a spirit of fatalism.
The qualified doctor understands, and routinely runs down the printed page of prescribed questions. She may have left her mink at the receptionist. Crude methods like salting out have long ago been abandoned in Japan and a 24 month cap is observed. But when she has faithfully paid her karmic duty to society, public opinion now concedes to a Japanese mother a right to grieve for her departed child. Her husband may typically accompany her to the temple to set the ritual of grieving into motion.