Have you ever wondered what a woman feels after having an abortion? Well, let’s hear it from (Thompson, Mary) who wrote about Irene Vilar, who was an abortion addict. “Impossible Motherhood recounts how Vilar had fifteen abortions over sixteen years while in relationships with two men. It narrates a cycle of unplanned pregnancies motivated by lack of self-care and a secret desire to defy Vilar's first husband. Each pregnancy was a rebellion against his wish to remain childless (and his belief that freedom for women is freedom from motherhood) but presented her with the frightening prospect of becoming a single mother. Vilar diagnoses herself as being an abortion "addict," swinging between the highs and lows of control and chaos and only "cured" later in her second marriage by motherhood. Becoming a mother was significant, Vilar suggests, because it healed the trauma of losing her kids and her mother.”

But Abortion can affect the emotional side of a woman too in so many different …show more content…
The outcome is a deceased baby and a living mother. Many religious people are against abortion due to the fact that someone is taking a child's life away. The reason for this being that "it is always prima facie seriously wrong to end the life of a baby," (Marquis 184). Anti-abortionists seem to agree on life beginning at the moment of conception. Therefore, abortion is equivalent to murder. If this is the case, then why is it wrong to kill a toddler or child at the age of 5, but not morally wrong to murder a baby that is still in the womb? The child may not necessarily be able to care for itself without it's mother, but anti-abortionists believe that these babies have a genetic code. This genetic code is needed in human beings, so fetuses should be considered human beings even while they are in the womb. All in all, killing a child even though they are not able to fend for themselves is