Is Abortion Safe?
Psychological Consequences
Clinical research provides a growing body of scientific evidence that having an abortion can cause psychological harm to some women.
Women speak out
"Women who report negative after-effects from abortion know exactly
what their problem is," observed psychologist Wanda Franz, Ph.D., in a
March 1989 congressional hearing on the impact of abortion.
"They
report horrible nightmares of children calling them from trash cans, of
body parts, and blood," Franz told the Congressional panel. "When they
are reminded of the abortion," Franz testified, "the women
re-experienced it with terrible psychological pain ...
They feel
worthless and victimized because they failed at the most natural of
human activities -- the role of being a mother."[106]
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