Most women voice their fear of pain as their greatest anxiety around the abortion experience. In fact, most women comment that it was far less painful than they feared and was finished much sooner that they expected. My dentist recently had to fill a cavity in my molar. I was crying from fear and pain as she injected the anesthetic. My announcement that I would rather have an abortion than a cavity filled shocked her into silence.
Some women experience abortion as painful.
As a health worker I try to help clients become as calm as possible in order to diminish the fear which I believe increases physical pain. But the fact that abortion is sometimes painful is not reason enough to say a woman shouldn't have one. While lots of women involve loved ones in their decision and some even bring partners, parents or friends to the clinic, lots of women don't. For most of these women, I think its about self-preservation. They don't tell because they expect their parents or partner to be unsupportive, perhaps even try to prevent them from having an abortion.