Abortion and depression.
Posted by Terry Nelson on Mar 29th, 2008
A lifelong sentence.
I read an account of an 84 year old Spanish woman who continues to suffer from depression over the loss of her child fifty seven years ago, due to a forced abortion. Her fiance insisted she abort the child she was carrying, despite the fact they later married. It is a tragic story.
Asked if she has ever forgotten it (the abortion), she is adamant. “No, I never forgot about it. I thought about it day and night and I tried to do things to forget it. But it has come back now very strong. The memory of that abortion has never left me, I have been depressed ever since,” Maria said. - CNA
March 29th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
My late mother told me a story that she (and I) have never forgotten. In 1943, when my mother was 17, she was hospitalized for appendicitis. In the bed next to her was a woman who tried to give herself an abortion with a pencil. She was married and had numerous children. Her effort at “birth control” however had given her lead poisoning. My mother remembers lying there, listening to the woman scream.
March 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
That is so sad, poor lady.