I would love to see a study comparing physical and mental health outcomes between women who abort and women who are “forced” to give birth. My prediction would be that the women who give birth, even to “unwanted” babies, are much better off.
Even though the abortion industry tries to make it look like the woman’s first impulse is to run and get an abortion the second she learns she is pregnant, nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing natural about a desire to abort; it goes against every instinct ingrained in us for millions of years. Thwarting instinct is not a recipe for happiness.
I read a study several years ago about women whose babies had died in utero, and who were given a choice to have the baby removed via an abortion-like procedure, or to wait for natural miscarriage. Some women who opted for miscarriage never did miscarry and had to have the removal procedure anyway. What that study found was that the women who opted to wait for natural miscarriage were emotionally better adjusted after losing their babies than the women who opted to have the fetus removed in a pseudo-abortion. The women choosing miscarriage were better off whether they actually miscarried or the baby ended up having to be removed. What I interpret is going on is that the surgical removal of a baby is so unnatural and contrary to instinct that it leaves women mentally and emotionally scarred—even if they know the baby was already dead before having the procedure.
Not just mentally and physically scarred, but spiritually as well. There’s nothing worse than learning that you are capable of killing your own flesh and blood. The remorse is seeking the truth, because obviously the lie isn’t holding up to reality.
The mind wanted to believe the ‘abortion is ok’ rhetoric, but the spirit knows better. Welcome to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Abortion is a horrible way to find out the truth. And you can’t take it back no matter how hard, or how long, or how severely you punish yourself.
Desiring to kill your off spring is abnormal. Regret, horror over what you did, grief..those are the right and normal reactions in a post abortion situation. And yes, pregnancy is often the follow-up response for those empty arms.
Some hateful folks will scoff at this saying she deserves what she gets. But the truth is, all of us hav3 fallen short of perfection and we all deserve death. Yet, merciful God is kind and continues to bless us. We all owe a debt we can’t pay.