The damage done by abortion to women

Contrary to the euphemistic reassurances of the abortion industry, including feminists, who are supposedly on the side of women, it is clear that abortion damages the mental well-being of the women who undergo it; that these millions of women – something of 1/3 of woman in our society are likely to have an abortion – suffer a deep sense of loss and shame for their destroyed child. The justification for it, that she can have another child later to replace the other, that she can, without the burden of a baby, get on with her career or life are undermined by the moral truth of the act of abortion; instead, she looks into the eyes of her other children and wonders what the aborted child would have been like; grief undermines the mental equilibrium needed to enjoy or accomplish the goals for which she has sacrificed the milk of human kindness.
They tell us that human autonomy is paramount, but we know that young girls are pressurised into having an abortion because it is the only responsible choice; that boyfriends refuse to support the mother-to-be because abortion is available; we know that many pregnancy advice centres automatically advise abortion. Clearly autonomy is under pressure when there is so much pressure not to have the baby. They tell us that abortion is the rational choice, that the child is just a foetus, a collection of cells, pre-human, therefore not human at all; they tell us that we are autonomous units, that we have a right to live our lives the way we want, that we should put ourselves above the needs of others; that rationality dictates we see the foetus as a collection of cells. That is the model of the human that they provide for us. But humans are not like that, they feel guilt and horror at what they are told is rational, non-problematic and responsible; they feel shame when the model tells them they should feel relief or nothing; they feel shame when the logic of the pro-abortion lobby tells them they should feel proud; they promise the preservation of an autonomous rational self uncompromised by the burden of a child; but for many women, abortion brings a dimunition of the self, a disintegration of the self. Part of us is moral and when we wrong ourselves and pretend we have done the right thing, we leave a part of ourselves behind. We are not like the model they provide, we are better than that; that is why abortion causes so much suffering to all those involved in it.