"Women Need to Know There Are Alternative Ways to Deal With the Emotions Left After They've Terminated" • AfterAbortion.org

9/22/15

Here’s a response from Destiny at New Wave Feminists to today’s Planned Parenthood-sponsored #ShoutYourAbortion twitter campaign:

But if you’ve done all this tweeting and shouting, and still find that you’re struggling with your abortion, please know that I love you. I truly, genuinely care about your happiness and well-being. As a feminist I don’t want to see a woman living under any type of oppression, whether it’s societally inflicted or emotional and self-induced. So if you do struggle with a past abortion, and have yet to make peace with it, please please please reach out to me. I’d love nothing more that to help you find healing so you can live a life free from that bondage.

And if that’s not you, if you’re someone who chose abortion and think it’s the best decision you ever made, I want you to know that I Iove you too. This isn’t about guilting or shaming anyone, it’s just about letting women who don’t handle things in the same way know that there are other options when it comes to processing a past abortion. Pro-choice can’t just apply to ending a pregnancy. Women need to know there are also alternative ways to deal with the emotions left after they’ve terminated.”