The Womans “Fault”?
Women are usually afraid or embarrassed to even admit to having an abortion, let alone talk to anyone else about problems she might be having. Women are encouraged to think it is ‘their fault’ if they have trouble after an abortion, and that the abortion itself had nothing to do with how she feels, and that PASS is just some ‘anti-choice myth’. It’s interesting how if a man goes off to a war, and comes back with “PTSD” (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), we don’t ‘blame the man’, and ‘protect’ the war, we admit it was the war that caused his PTSD. We don’t refuse to help the man, and belittle him or invalidate his pain by saying he had ‘previous psychological problems’, or other issues in his life that caused the PTSD – we admit it was the whole stress and experience of war, and we help him, support him, allow him a name for his experience and treat him.
