EMOTIONAL RISKS
How Will Abortion Affect You Emotionally?
The odds are, if you are already pregnant and considering an abortion, you are already emotionally devastated. An unwanted pregnancy can affect you and everyone you love and care for emotionally. You see, emotions are only temporary and abortion is permanent. Once you have had an abortion, there is no going back or changing your mind.
When a woman first finds out she is pregnant, if the circumstances are not favorable, chances are she is going to try to think of an alternative, a way to get out of having this baby. Because abortion has existed throughout the centuries, many women gravitate to the thought of abortion immediately. However, once a woman with a good and level head on her shoulders, along with a moral outlook on life begins to sort out the issue, she will begin to think of other alternatives to abortion, such as adoption or raising the child herself, or perhaps allow a family member to raise the child. Unfortunately, quite often, a pregnant teen or someone who is not prepared emotionally, financially or physically to take on the responsibility of raising a child, will not think rationally and base her decision on how to get herself out of this mess and quickly - not realizing that whatever decision she makes, will ultimately effect her emotionally either now and/or later on down the road. Abortion comes with many regrets, a boatload of guilt, and often times destroys the souls who make such a choice. Ask someone who has had an abortion how she feels about it now. You will probably hear a story that is sad and is still causing her a great amount of emotional trauma.
You see, when a woman, regardless of her age, first makes the decision to terminate a pregnancy, she will go through a period of denial and will be totally out of touch with her rational self and her emotions. She will justify in her own mind that this is the ONLY choice that makes sense. However, once the abortion has been performed and she realizes that what she did was not only wrong, but that the choice she made is permanent and that she can never take it back; she will begin to go through several stages of grief. Her soul will begin to understand what she did, and a mourning process will begin for the child she lost - regardless of whether she wanted to keep the baby or not. Then she will go through an angry phase. She will be angry with herself, with God, her parents, her friends for not guiding her to make the right decision - angry with the person who got her pregnant and with the people who didn't provide any other alternative but to get an abortion - the list is endless. Not only is she emotionally distraught, but because her hormones were geared up for a pregnancy and now the womb is empty, she will often times suffer postpartum depression as well.
Don't kid yourself. Even if these emotional episodes do not take place immediately, you will reach a point in your life where you WILL have regrets and you WILL suffer emotionally. Won't you save yourself from all of this emotional duress and investigate other options other than abortion? You will thank yourself one day, maybe not right now, but some day.
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