Thanks for talking about this. I can only imagine how difficult it is. I worked for 4 years in psychiatric hospitals, and met at least 2 women that I know of who had serious depression issues years after an abortion. The worst part of it was that, for all the training we received about “validating” peoples’ feelings, the industry was so deeply mired in liberal dogma that we were not allowed to help them with any sense of remorse; only to reassure them that what they did was perfectly alright. These women were hurting deeply for their whole adult lives, and being told basically to shut up. There are no statistics that I know of on Post-Traumatic Stress (one of the great Liberal Shiboleths) for abortion; I believe the APA doesn’t want to sweep it under the rug; they want to bury it out in the woods under a big rock where no one will ever find it. I weep for the lost children, and weep for the women we have lied to.
Have you ever thought of establishing a group (or maybe there is one I’m not aware of) for people who’ve been through this for mutual support and / or activism? You (and a lot of other people) might be surprised at the numbers.
Is this the work that Project Rachel does?