The Ugly Truth of Post-Abortion Syndrome: Testimony from Real Women Who Aborted their Babies

The Ugly Truth of Post-Abortion Syndrome: Testimony from Real Women Who Aborted their Babies

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 3 Dec 2014

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/03/The-Ugly-Truth-of-Post-Abortion-Syndrome-Testimony-from-Real-Women-Who-Aborted-their-Babies

In 2007, the New York Times stated that scientific evidence “strongly shows that abortion does not increase the risk of depression, drug abuse or any other psychological problem.” This confident assertion—already dubious when it was made—is being overwhelmed by reams of evidence suggesting the contrary: that abortion leaves a discernible wake of sorrow, suffering, and devastation.

Along with the disturbing statistics, however, is the compelling testimony of real women who have aborted their children and of what happened to their lives as a result. Though abortion does often provide a short-term solution to real problems pregnant women face, thus granting some immediate relief, the myth that women come out of abortion psychologically unscathed now seems unsustainable.

Jewels Green was a former abortion clinic worker who had an abortion in 1989, after nine and a half weeks gestation. After aborting, Green continued her job but started seeing her “lost child in every jar of aborted baby parts.” She started having nightmares “so gruesome and terrifying” that she requested an appointment with the clinic director and ended up quitting her job. Her sorrow is expressed in a language only a mother could understand: “Happy Nobirthday, Unbaby. I miss you every day. Love & tears, Mom.”

The founder of the pro-life group And Then There Were None is a woman named Abby Johnson, who had two abortions. One day in the car, her daughter asked out of the blue whether someday she would be able to see her siblings in Heaven. According to Johnson, “I asked her what she meant… honestly, hoping that she was not talking about my own two abortions. She said that she knew I had two abortions and she wanted to know if she would ever get to meet those babies because she said, ‘In my heart, I miss them.’”

When I had my abortions, Johnson said, “I never thought about how it would affect others. I didn’t think about my future children. I never thought about how I would have to explain my selfishness to them.”

Lori Nerad’s testimony is even more harrowing. The former national president of Women Exploited by Abortion, Nerad describes going into labor two weeks after her abortion. There in the bathroom, she says, “with my husband beside me, I delivered a part of my baby the doctor had missed. It was the head of my baby.”

Nerad says she still wakes up in the middle of the night, thinking she hears a baby crying. “And I still have nightmares in which I am forced to watch my baby being ripped apart in front of me. I simply miss my baby. I constantly wake up wanting to nurse my child, wanting to hold my child. And that’s something the doctor never told me I would experience,” she said.

Katrina Fernandez makes no bones about the reality of what she did. “I killed two of my children,” she said, “robbed my parents of grand-children, and murdered my son’s siblings.” She says that she would have given anything for someone to simply tell her: “You don’t have to do this.”

The abortions also took a toll on Fernandez’s life and mental health, a factor often overlooked in debate regarding abortion. According to Fernandez, her abortions “directly caused a medical condition known as incompetent cervix which resulted in the premature birth of another son who died after a week-long struggle in the NICU in 2001. The suffering I’ve endured and caused others is immeasurable and the guilt almost drove me suicidal. I am a coward in every way,” she said.

And yet now, convinced that silence fails women who need encouragement to carry their babies to term, Fernandez declares: “I refuse to be a coward anymore.”

New York Times

Leslie H. Gelb was a reporter, columnist & op-ed page editor for the New York Times, a board member for the International Crisis Group, and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. 

  

Note: George Soros is a board member at the International Crisis Group, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a contributor for MoveOn.org, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for Media Matters, People for the American Way, and the Sundance Institute.

Ilyse Hogue was a director of political advocacy for MoveOn.org, is the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, and a senior adviser for Media Matters.

Lou Dobbs was a critic for Media Matters, and is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client.

Barbra Streisand is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client, and the founder of the Barbra Streisand Foundation.

Barbra Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.       

Ari Emanuel is the co-CEO & director for William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, and Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother.

Rahm I. Emanuel is Ari Emanuel’s brother, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.

Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a director at the Joyce Foundation.

Joyce Foundation was a funder for Media Matters.

Media Matters monitors Fox News.

Martin Frost was a political commentator for Fox News, the president of America Votes, and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.  

Cecile Richards was the founder & president for America Votes, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.

People for the American Way is a national partner with America Votes.

Margery Tabankin is a director at People for the American Way, and the treasurer for the Barbra Streisand Foundation.

Barbra Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Lear Family Foundation was a funder for People for the American Way.

Norman Lear is the president of the Lear Family Foundation, a director at People for the American Way, and married to Lyn Davis Lear.

Lyn Davis Lear is married to Norman Lear, a director at the Lear Family Foundation, a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and a trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.   

Barbra Streisand is a trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client, and the founder of the Barbra Streisand Foundation.

Barbra Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.                                                       

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member at the International Crisis Group, and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.

Leslie H. Gelb was a board member for the International Crisis Group, a reporter, columnist & op-ed page editor for the New York Times, and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.