I saw posted a comment by a woman that she heard someone say they were getting a scan of the twin they were carrying to make sure the babies they were bringing into this world were healthy, and the woman pointed out they were already in this world they were just not born yet.
Which is quite true but in the womb they are not yet independent and even though we can help babies survive who are born prematurely they need intensive care at ever increasing amounts the younger they are. It is also interesting to note the conversation women are having as to when they think they have ‘life.’ My mother told me she always knew she was pregnant within a week of the conceptions. She felt a flutter in her stomach. She also wrote an amazing letter on the birth of my sister which is an outpouring of wonder, creation and motherhood in one.
Her own mother went into deep post-natal depressions which took months to wear away.
The way in which women react to pregnancy is vital to how they discuss abortion but it is not vital at all to how they feel about abortion when they have one. I have never met any woman who did not find the trauma depressing, who wished circumstance had been different and who don’t silently mourn their lost child.
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