What are the exact questions here?
Do people suffer mentally after aborting their children? The earlier poster was the first I've heard say no.
Go to http://www.hardtruth.net and read the stories there (most are archived) from people who chose abortion. Men AND women. Men often seem to be overlooked in this equation, they feel as if they have little or no choice in the matter, and when they do or if they are the convincing factor they suffer just as much as women from the guilt and pain of it once they realize what has been done.
On another note, most of the people I have interviewed were Christians who had either had an abortion before they were or when they were teens, and later had other children.
NONE of them had one to save the mother's life. That is a very very small fraction of abortions. Most are done for the sake of convenience.
What needs to be taught over and over until it sinks into people's brains is that having sex is how a person gets pregnant. Apparently there are still a vast majority who don't get this. They have sex and then are shocked and unprepared when ...*gasp* ...they're pregnant! There ARE ways to avoid this situation. If we didn't view sex as socially acceptable before marriage that would end a portion of the problem, but no, we want to let our kids grow up watching the sex promoting filth on television, walking around in skimpy clothes is "cute", we let family planning and public schools be their moral guidance, and NOBODY GETS IT! Infidelity in marriage isn't even seen as cause for divorce anymore. Sex is shoved in everyone's faces, immorality is seen as ok...
Alright, I'll quit there. LOL
It just ticks me off that people are so STUPID and then babies get killed and it's seen as perfectly ok because it's easier to deal with than the morally correct solution! And I'm not talking about just stopping abortion, I'm talking about stopping how our whole society is sex-oriented!
Chrys