Wednesday, February 08, 2012
 
Abortion Recovery

If you’re struggling with a past abortion, or know someone who is, please know that you/they are not alone. A past abortion is definitely not easy to talk about.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE 

Experience shows that women, men and family members who have experienced an abortion often have difficulties emotionally, physically, socially, mentally and spiritually. It doesn't matter if the abortion was 20 hours, 20 days or 20 years ago. It doesn't matter what ethnicity, gender, age, religion, ability or socio-economic status a person is. If someone is having a hard time with a past abortion... Pregnancy Resource Center will help you through the healing process.  Call or email us... we can help!!

Post Abortion Sydrome

If you've experienced an abortion, your life may have changed in the following ways. We can help.

  • abusive behavior
  • alcohol and / or drug use
  • avoids baby reminders (like baby showers, baby stores, etc.)
  • changes in relationship / marriage (70% of relationships/marriages break up within 1 year of an abortion, 90% within 5 years)
  • control issues
  • crying spells
  • difficulty in all types of intimacy
  • divides time into "before" and "after" the abortion
  • eating disorders
  • fails to bond with subsequent children
  • loss of interest in sex
  • loss of normal sources of pleasure
  • marital stress
  • need of financial success
  • over-protective of living children
  • promiscuity or frigidity
  • reduced motivation
  • secretive
  • self-punishing and / or self-degrading behavior
  • sleep disturbances
  • strained relationship with living children
  • suicidal impulses
  • tolerates abusive relationships
  • wants atonement / replacement child
  • withdrawn
  

Others Affected by Abortion

Men Who Chose Abortion

The guilt and burden of a man who's pressured a woman into abortion, is unbearable at times. They feel guilty for their sexual irresponsibility and feel unforgivable for pushing the woman to take the life of their child. Even if abortion was in a previous relationship, it can be divisive to later marriage/s.

Friends and Family

Other men, siblings, grandparents, friends, etc. are left to handle the "aftermath" of an abortion when they did not want the abortion chosen by the woman.  Maybe they tried to talk the mother out of the abortion, or found out afterward that she had made the choice without their knowledge. These people are touched by the abortion experience as well. They deserve to grieve the loss of that child, as much as the woman who laid on the table.


Abortion Recovery Program

The Pregnancy Resource Center provides opportunities for abortion recovery counseling through our FREE and CONFIDENTIAL abortion recovery program. Our counselors are trained specifically to handle post abortion issues. Most of our counselors have personally experienced an abortion themselves, or been involved in someone else's choice.

If you're interested in more information, please contact us.

 


 
  


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