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First, let me describe my grief. I remember preparing breakfast one morning before one of my abortions and I was walking around the kitchen weeping tears of grief because I knew it would be the last meal my baby would ever get. Intellectually I bought into the lie that I was removing unwanted tissue from my uterus, but emotionally I knew I was neglecting to protect my unborn baby. A woman who has had a miscarriage is allowed to acknowledge the death of her baby and to go through the grieving process which ultimately leads to acceptance. I was not allowed to acknowledge anything except that the “problem” had been solved and now life could go on. But my life would never be the same. Normal feelings of loss, sadness and guilt were repressed and I was totally isolated in my pain and despair. The grief came as I wanted my baby back and realized it was too late.

Secondly, I experienced depression. Have you ever seen pictures of soldiers returning home from war with arms in slings, leaning on crutches and their heads bandaged? The Walking Wounded. That is the way I was for years. For a long time I did not understand why I was sad and depressed. Finally, I was able to connect the emotional pain surrounding my abortions to the low self esteem and depression I was experiencing. I have struggled with feeling any kind of emotion as I determined to stop hurting. I shut down emotionally and became unable to feel even happiness or contentment. I tried to keep myself busy to bury my feelings and my needs, but there was no relief. I was Walking Wounded.

Lastly, anger and mistrust were my constant companions. At one clinic I was brought into the procedure room by the nurse and she told me to lie down on the table and she draped me with a paper sheet. A few minutes later a masked-covered doctor came in and started the process of dilating my cervix and then suctioning out my baby. He never looked at me or spoke to me, just went about his task. The procedure was very painful and as I cried out and questioned what he was doing, there was no reply or even comfort from the attending nurse. How could a woman endure that and not be scarred emotionally? I had been so poorly treated by these “medical professionals” that I learned to mistrust the entire medical community. I was angry towards the abortionist and his staff as they withheld information about fetal development, alternatives to abortion, and the long-term emotional consequences.

As I mentioned at the start, I am just one of the thousands of women who have been hurt by their abortion experience. No one told me about the depression and anger and no one ever told me it was unhealthy emotionally to have an abortion. Now I’m telling you, so that you can warn others.

I am grateful to Jesus for easing me of my grief, depression and anger. The Lord used the Post Abortion Bible Study at Assist CPC to heal my invisible scars.

The above is a true story, from one of our clients. If you, or someone you know, has trouble with depression, guilt, anger, or nightmares after an abortion, please know you are not alone and that there is help. Please call us at 703-354-7272 and ask for Post-Abortion counseling.