Post Abortion Syndrome
(originally posted December 2009)
According to current research, most women who have abortions deal with guilt, depression, regret, sleep disturbance and shame. "Studies within the first few weeks after the abortion have found that between 40 and 60 percent of women who were questioned, reported having negative reactions. Within 8 weeks after their abortions, 55% expressed guilt, 44% complained of nervous disorders, 36% had experienced sleep disturbances, 31% had regrets about their decision, and 11% had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor."- (AbortionFacts.com) Abortions can have a devastating effect on women.
If you are pro-abortion you might have some different opinions. You may say, "It is not a baby; it's just a fetus. It has no feelings. It is part of it's mother. Abortion won't hurt it." But the Bible would say differently. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” (Jeremiah 1:5) "A fetus is an individual as soon as it is conceived, and it has it's own immune system. At three weeks from conception, a baby's heart begins to beat; at 6 weeks, brainwaves are measurable, both before most of the earliest abortions." (abort73.com)
If you are pro-choice, you might believe that abortion doesn't physically hurt the mother- that it is just an "inconvenience". But research shows that it has a devastating effect on woman and their physical health. "...I couldn't save [my child] because I was too scared and too confused to open my mouth. And then I felt a suction and the worst pain I have ever felt in my life came with it and I swear I felt a tear in my body, a rip and I was emptied ... I screamed. I finally opened my mouth when it was too late and I screamed "NO" like it would make a difference. I kept screaming it over and over and over while they ignored me."* Abortion does hurt woman, physically and emotionally.
There are also negative emotional health effects in a post-abortion woman. Depression often hits hard after a woman has an abortion. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't regret my abortion. There would be times when I would just cry for hours. I became depressed and suicidal."* "In one study of 500 women who had abortions, researchers found that 50 percent expressed negative feelings, and up to 10 percent were classified as having developed "serious psychiatric complications." (AbortionFacts.com) Sixty-percent of the woman were feeling negative feelings about it, and they will always live with the guilt of "how could I kill a living baby?", until they let Jesus come in and heal their wounds, they forgive themselves, understanding that Yeshua already forgave them. I have read testimony after testimony about women having abortions, and the emotional ride they have had since then. Most have not gone a day of their life, since they've aborted their babies, that they not have regretted their decision, and cried over their loss. Every time they see a friend, family, or another woman who is pregnant, or has a baby, the heartache can be worse.
They are also more likely to have miscarriages after they have an abortion- here is one woman's story: "...Now I have two children, but both of them were premature babies... I could not have a normal pregnancy due to the abortion I had 13 years ago. It is hard to know that I had an abortion. I feel like a monster. How could I have caused such horrible deaths to my other children?..."* After an abortion, a woman is 30-40% more likely to have an miscarriage. "Of a group of 52 women who had induced abortions 10-15 years previously and who were followed very closely during that length of time, it was found that one-half (27) had no problem with subsequent pregnancies. There was one ectopic pregnancy, eight subsequent — but long-delayed — conceptions, and three women with permanently blocked tubes. Of the remaining 11 women, there were 33 pregnancies with 14 early and 3 midtrimester losses, 6 premature deliveries, and only 10 full-term births."(AbortionFacts.com)
Abortion has affected women for years, as they have had to deal with their emotion privately and not let others know how they feel. These women need to go to a post-abortion help center and start their journey towards healing and forgiveness, as many still have the hurt inside of them for killing an innocent child. What should be the safest place in the world- a mother's womb, is now the most dangerous. A baby should be protected, come to full gestation, and live a life that God has set up for them. If the 50 million legally aborted children and their children were alive to vote, abortion would be illegalized by the popular vote. God had a destiny for each and everyone of those aborted children. He had a life plan for them that will never come to pass. There may be that many more people here today, being Jesus Freaks! "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." (Psalms 139:13)
* Testimonies are from www.abort73.com
If you are pro-abortion you might have some different opinions. You may say, "It is not a baby; it's just a fetus. It has no feelings. It is part of it's mother. Abortion won't hurt it." But the Bible would say differently. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” (Jeremiah 1:5) "A fetus is an individual as soon as it is conceived, and it has it's own immune system. At three weeks from conception, a baby's heart begins to beat; at 6 weeks, brainwaves are measurable, both before most of the earliest abortions." (abort73.com)
If you are pro-choice, you might believe that abortion doesn't physically hurt the mother- that it is just an "inconvenience". But research shows that it has a devastating effect on woman and their physical health. "...I couldn't save [my child] because I was too scared and too confused to open my mouth. And then I felt a suction and the worst pain I have ever felt in my life came with it and I swear I felt a tear in my body, a rip and I was emptied ... I screamed. I finally opened my mouth when it was too late and I screamed "NO" like it would make a difference. I kept screaming it over and over and over while they ignored me."* Abortion does hurt woman, physically and emotionally.
There are also negative emotional health effects in a post-abortion woman. Depression often hits hard after a woman has an abortion. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't regret my abortion. There would be times when I would just cry for hours. I became depressed and suicidal."* "In one study of 500 women who had abortions, researchers found that 50 percent expressed negative feelings, and up to 10 percent were classified as having developed "serious psychiatric complications." (AbortionFacts.com) Sixty-percent of the woman were feeling negative feelings about it, and they will always live with the guilt of "how could I kill a living baby?", until they let Jesus come in and heal their wounds, they forgive themselves, understanding that Yeshua already forgave them. I have read testimony after testimony about women having abortions, and the emotional ride they have had since then. Most have not gone a day of their life, since they've aborted their babies, that they not have regretted their decision, and cried over their loss. Every time they see a friend, family, or another woman who is pregnant, or has a baby, the heartache can be worse.
They are also more likely to have miscarriages after they have an abortion- here is one woman's story: "...Now I have two children, but both of them were premature babies... I could not have a normal pregnancy due to the abortion I had 13 years ago. It is hard to know that I had an abortion. I feel like a monster. How could I have caused such horrible deaths to my other children?..."* After an abortion, a woman is 30-40% more likely to have an miscarriage. "Of a group of 52 women who had induced abortions 10-15 years previously and who were followed very closely during that length of time, it was found that one-half (27) had no problem with subsequent pregnancies. There was one ectopic pregnancy, eight subsequent — but long-delayed — conceptions, and three women with permanently blocked tubes. Of the remaining 11 women, there were 33 pregnancies with 14 early and 3 midtrimester losses, 6 premature deliveries, and only 10 full-term births."(AbortionFacts.com)
Abortion has affected women for years, as they have had to deal with their emotion privately and not let others know how they feel. These women need to go to a post-abortion help center and start their journey towards healing and forgiveness, as many still have the hurt inside of them for killing an innocent child. What should be the safest place in the world- a mother's womb, is now the most dangerous. A baby should be protected, come to full gestation, and live a life that God has set up for them. If the 50 million legally aborted children and their children were alive to vote, abortion would be illegalized by the popular vote. God had a destiny for each and everyone of those aborted children. He had a life plan for them that will never come to pass. There may be that many more people here today, being Jesus Freaks! "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." (Psalms 139:13)
* Testimonies are from www.abort73.com
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