Dear Editor,

The testimonies of many who have had abortions reveal that far from being a right, it is the gateway to psychological distress, depression and suicidal thoughts. It is the beginning of a life of post-abortion syndrome.

“I took refuge in alcohol because my head kept telling me: I killed my son, I killed him. That night, I wept from regret and sorrow. Why didn’t anyone tell me what would happen next? Horrible, horrible, horrible.”

“Horrible” is often the word used by most women who have had an abortion.

Their testimony not only shows that post-abortion syndrome exists, but that the suffering in women is much higher than the suffering that the pregnancy could have brought them.

The second victim is the mother who is forced to end the life of her son or daughter. It is easy to find terrible testimonies of those who would give it all to go back in time and get away from that clinic that they thought would have solved their problems, but instead brought them living hell.

Here’s another painful cry: “Everything that happens to you afterwards is horrible. I began to mistreat my other son. I would hurt myself, and was disgusted by the abortion. I go to church, light candles for him, pray, and when he’ll turn one, I’ll organise a Mass for him.”

“It is better to have the child and then give it up for adoption, rather than go through the experience of abortion, one of the worst experiences ever. In the room where I was there were girls who had been given general anaesthesia, and when they awoke, they were going crazy crying and clinging to their bellies … horrible. They were all teenage girls crying because their soul was hurting, since they knew exactly what they had done. They had murdered their child.”

Another said: “I did not want an abortion, but I had a mortgage of ¤1400 and at work they didn’t renew my contract. I went home desperate, searched online and found Red Madre, asked them for help and they came to my house. They told me not to abort, that they would support me so I could continue forward.”

She had few economic resources, a psychiatric history of depression and suicide attempts, and was very lonely. Now she claims that the abortion law should be abolished. “It’s horrible. You have no idea what women have to suffer; something that only a mother knows. You are destroying the lives of many women. Instead of getting rid of a problem, I burdened myself with a bigger one.”

Clemente Ferrer

Madrid, Spain

clementeferrer3@gmail.com