Courtenay Adkins
Psy1012
November 4, 2003
Effects of Abortion
After abortion it has been observed that the women experience five to ten years of denial and this happens because of the trauma she has gone through by her abortion. This keeps on repressing her feelings and she goes a great length to avoid any contact with males. She starts to avoid any situation or event which may have an association with her abortion. She starts to convince others that her act of abortion was the correct one and she made the right choice but at the same time she feels inside that she might have done the greatest mistake of her life. In fact such women keep on regretting their action and fail to reach a true state of satisfaction with regard to their traumatic experience.
The aborted women experience the reactions like guilty feeling, anxiety, helplessness, shameful feeling, grief, remorse; urge to cry without control, feeling angry, a lot of bitterness and resentment.
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With so many negative experiences the only positive emotions which come to their mind is relief. Naturally most of the aborting women feel tense pressure during the pregnancy and they feel relieved after the intense pressure is gone. But this feeling of relief proves temporary as these women become unable to express their emotions and they are faced with emotional paralysis or post abortion numbness. This is the kind of negative reaction which is experience by most of the aborted women. In fact within 8 weeks...
The Effects of Abortion on Women
This essay is very broad in that it categorises all women who have abortions into one group. What about those who have abortion because of a rape pregnancy, women who have to abort due to severe medical complications with the child or themselves or women who have had what is classed as a 'missed miscarriage' where the baby dies but does not expel itself and therefore must be done medically. Be careful not to stamp all women who have abortions with the same condemning attitude this essay seems to have. I apologise if this was not your intent, but as you say, women suffer greatly after going through this situation, they do not need the added burden of being judged by others, believe me, they do enough of that to themselves.
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