I could never watch the film again because I couldn't take seeing that sequence.
From a comment on IMDB..
Michael Caine plays Alfie, a hipster swinger in 1960s London whose attitudes and actions we abhor even as we warm to the twinkle in his eye. Caine plays the role just right. The movie would go nowhere if he wasn't able to make us understand what about Alfie attracts women despite his treatment of them. The film has noble ambitions, and explores some pretty dark (and for the time, edgy) terrain, when Alfie's antics catch up with him and he leaves one of his conquests (played quietly by Vivien Merchant) in the hands of a sleazy abortionist. The look on Caine's face when he returns to his apartment and sees the aborted fetus, visual confirmation of his callous disregard, was enough on its own to earn him the Oscar nomination he received for this film.
Art imitates life all too well in this film.
I watched that movie a couple of years ago, and I agree it is hard to watch that scene. Hard to imagine that same movie being made now, isn’t it?
The post abortive trauma deniers refuse to consider abortion as a source of any of life’s problems and it needs to be talked about.
There are pregnancy counseling centers in every community who offer help to anyone who has an abortion in their past. If you’re having problems, go talk to someone, even if you think you are over it and that isn’t part of your current problems. Just go talk to someone at one of these places that offers help.