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Originally Posted by Ustwo
This is one of the side effects of abortion they don't tell you about if you have a conscience. Its an easy decision to make from a selfish standpoint, and almost all abortions are selfish in nature. Add to it the powerful female instinct for having/raising children, and the fact that she ended it herself and she may never get over it. She may also realize that she could have put the child up for adoption which will only make the selfish nature of the abortion sting more.
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Wow, you nailed every part of this. The conscience is there to tell us what we're doing at the time is wrong, or that we have made a mistake.
I've been anti-abortion for decades, but after we adopted in 1997, I became even more so. Everytime I looked at the little fellow and thought he could have wound up at the landfill (figuratively speaking, lest anyone try to correct this), I just got mad and sad. I do adoption work now, and love to have the chance to put a newborn with parents that can't have any of their own, or want more. I could place two a week if I had the supply.
But that's not convenient for those that created the life. Better to just wipe it away and act like it didn't happen. Well, it DID happen, and as you said, the aftermath of that decision is not talked about as much as it should be. Selfishness has consequences.