• Regret
• Remorse
• Withdrawal/isolation
• Grieving/mourning
• Guilt
• Suicidal tendencies
• Alcohol/Drug abuse
• Self destructive behaviour
• Hostility/Anger/Rage
• Lower Self-esteem
• Preoccupation with "would be" due date or birth month
• Despair/Helplessness
• Depression
• Loss of interest in sex
• Inability to forgive yourself
• Nightmares
• Feelings of being exploited and deceived
• Intense/uncontrollable crying
• Insomnia
• Weight loss
• Vomiting/Gastro-intestinal disturbances
• Frigidity

If you have been physically damaged or hurt in any way because of an abortion such as getting an infection, perforated uterus, perforated cervix,cervical or breast cancer or have subsequent fertility problems please contact us or www.afterabortion.org or a good prolife lawyer. Women need to hold the abortionists accountable for complications and for not being informed on all the risks of abortion including the breast cancer risk.

A. Stressor: The abortion experience ie.,the intentional destruction of one's unborn child is sufficiently traumatic and beyond the range of usual human experience so as to cause significant symptoms of re-experience, avoidance and impacted grieving.

B. Re-experience: The abortion trauma is re-experienced in one of the following ways:

1. Recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the abortion experience

2. Recurrent distressing dreams of the abortion or of the unborn child

3. Sudden acting or feeling as if the abortion were recurring (including reliving the experience, illusions, flashbacks)

4. Intense psychological distress at exposure to events that symbolize or resemble the abortion experience (e.g., clinics, pregnant mothers, subsequent pregnancies).

5. Anniversary reactions of intense grieving and /or depression on subsequent anniversary dates of the abortion or on the projected due date of the aborted child.

C. Avoidance: Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the abortion trauma or numbing of general responsiveness (not present before the abortion), as indicated by at least three of the following:

1. Efforts to avoid or deny thoughts or feelings associated with the abortion

2. Efforts to avoid activities, situations or information that might arouse recollections of the abortion
 

3. Inability to recall the abortion experience or an important aspect of the abortion (psychogenic amnesia)

4. Markedly diminished interest in significant activities

5. Feelings of detachment or estrangement from others

6. Withdrawal in relationships and/or reduced communication

7. Restricted range of affect, e.g., unable to have loving or tender feelings

8. Sense of foreshortened future, e.g., does not expect 'to have a career, marriage, children or a long life

D. Associated Features: Persistent symptoms (not present before the abortion), as indicated by at least two of the following:

1. Difficulty falling or staying asleep

2. Irritability or outbursts of anger

3. Difficulty concentrating

4. Hypervigilence

5. Exaggerated startle response to intrusive recollections or re-experiencing of the abortion trauma

6. Physiologic reactivity upon exposure to events or situations that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the abortion (e.g., breaking out in a profuse sweat upon having a pelvic examination, or hearing vacuum pump sounds..)

7. Depression and suicidal ideation

8. Guilt about surviving when one's unborn child did not

9. Self devaluation and/or an inability to forgive one's self

10. Secondary substance abuse

E. There are 27 possible physical complications which can and does happen to women after having an abortion like infections, lacerations and perforations which can lead to sterility!

Recently, Isabelle Begin, an independent health researcher from Ottawa discovered that the World Health

Organization (WHO) gave false and misleading information when it comes to reporting the "cause of death" for

women who had so called "safe"abortions and died. Results show that up to ONE out of THIRTEEN women are

hospitalized in a life and death situation after undergoing an abortion. Their system for coding deaths related to

"abortions" is defunct, therefore abortion deaths have remained buried under tons of coding volumes.

Henry Morgentaler with the largest abortionist chain in Canada wrote in his book; "Abortion & Contraception;" "The risk of mortality to the woman increases by almost 30% with each week of gestation and approximately doubles for every two weeks after eight menstrual weeks...Ten to fifteen percent of all deaths due to abortion are caused by haemorrhage...Embolism accounts for 24% of abortion deaths...Infection accounts fully for 25% of all deaths resulting from abortion; Mortality due to hysterectomy (C-section for termination of pregnancy) is quite high... The reason why pregnancies of less than six weeks carry a higher risk of major complications is that before seven to eight weeks, the cervix has not softened enough and dilation, therefore, is more difficult and carries more risk of perforation and cervical injury. Also, menstrual extraction done early in pregnancy has a high rate of incomplete abortions with retention of tissue...Delay of suction curettage from eight to ten weeks' gestation increases the risk of a major complication by 60%. Delay of abortion from eight to sixteen weeks' gestation increases the rick of a major complication by 300 to 1,300%."

If you are suffering in silence from the pain, shame, guilt and remorse of having an abortion and it is effecting your relationships, your sex life, your emotions, physical and mental health...seek a good pro life doctor, Pastor, Priest, Rabbi, but most important is to pray the following out loud, by faith to God the creator of the universe:

Heavenly Father you know everything about me, right now I ask you to forgive me for the sin of abortion, for the sin of having my own child/children murdered...for encouraging my wife, girlfriend to abort our child/children...Forgive me for the sin of having sex outside of marriage, forgive me for (whatever sins come to your mind...drunkenness, lies, selfishness, self-centeredness, adultery, fornication, ...) and for all of my sins. Help me God, to forgive myself. Please guide and direct me to now to do something to save other lives from being aborted. In Jesus Holy name.

1 Peter 2:24 " who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness...". Isaiah 53:4 "Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him sticken, Smitten by God, and afflicted." 1Peter 3:18 "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit." Rev. 1:5" and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over teh kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood."

Eph.1:7 " In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace."

1John 1:9 " If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

If you know that it is time to change your life for the better, if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, and want deliverance and freedom from addictions and bad relationships...start by praying the following prayer to God to get on the road to recovery:

First know what the Bible says:

“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23,

“The wages of sin is death.” Romans 6:23

“We all like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him [Jesus] the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6

“God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16,

“Unless a man/woman is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3...

Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6,

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12,

“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” 1 Peter 3:18,

“For it is by grace [undeserved favor] that you have been saved [delivered from sin’s penalty] through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one should boast.”

Dear God, I know that I am a sinner and deserve to be punished. But I ask you God to forgive me of all my sins. I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for me, and rose from the dead, so I could be forgiven. I ask you to come into my life. Help me Lord Jesus to be the woman/man of God that you always intended me to be. Help me to find a good Bible believing church, and help me to understand your word when I read the Bible in Jesus Holy name. Amen.

John 5:24 is where Jesus says, “He/she who hears My word, and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”

Now it is so important to grow as Christian. It is important that you confess your faith to others, read the Bible every day, join a Bible study, go to a hot Bible believing church, develop a personal relationship with God by speaking to Him daily and praise Him. God wants us to repent, change our old ways and not keep sinning...it is a process.

God is good! He loves you so much and wants you healed and free to help others find the way too.

Please let us know if you have prayed or have a story to share. The next step is find a good Bible believing alive church, start reading the Bible and talk to God in Jesus name and He will direct your path! An exciting adventure in the greatest spiritual journey awaits you! If you abide in Him and He abides in you, then the truth shall set you free.

Now hopefully you will get involved somehow to stop the slaughter of the innocents by joining a prolife group, volunteering, letting the politicians know that abortion hurts women and kills tiny human beings, by praying for distressed women and church leaders to take a stand, by volunteering at a Pregnancy Crisis/Counselling Centre, picketting local abortuaries and hospitals that perform abortions, donate financially to support prolife work, just be a voice for the voiceless. etc...

Prov. 31:8, Prov. 24:11,12 Isa. 43:7-11, Eph. 5:11, Gal. 6:9,10...

May God bless you more and more as you seek to do His will