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Seems like everytime she would see a child, it would hurt her deeply....
I don't know if that is true. A friend of mine used to work in a city hospital, and many women just had abortions as an method of birth control. Those women did not have any regrets for what they had done. As many today do not because it is so much a part of our culture.

I wonder if such despair would drive her away from her faith.
Whether their "faith" entered into it, you are assuming that they had "faith" to begin with.

Personally, I think the fundamentalist christians do more to drive people away from "believing" than anything or anyone else.

I think the fundamentalist christians do more to drive people away from "believing" than anything or anyone else.

Why should deliberately careless distortions of observations and theories to conform to a predetermined belief, and vilifying close-minded defenses of ignorance and absurdity drive people away? You speak as though people are turned off by attacks on human thought.

Thank you for your reply!

Indeed, if a woman who has had an abortion does not value the unborn as a human life - or if she does not value any human life - perhaps she would never feel regret.

you are assuming that they had "faith" to begin with.

Indeed, if she had no faith to begin with - the statement would not apply to her, i.e. she would have nothing from which to be driven away.

Personally, I think the fundamentalist christians do more to drive people away from "believing" than anything or anyone else.

You are certainly welcome to your views. I am a fundamentalist and disagree with you in part and agree with you in part.

Back in the days of Jesus, the Pharisees were the fundamentalists. Both then and now, some fundamentalists read the Word with their mind instead of their spirit. That leads to mental gymnastics which can be very troubling, especially to non-believers, IMHO:

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. – Mark 12:24-27

Reading the Word spiritually leads to the inescapable conclusion that we must love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, strength and understanding – and love our neighbor as ourselves. I have never known a person – believer or not – to resent such unconditional love.