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The Healing Choice : Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion

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I found this book to be very limited in scope. Knowing first hand what the experience is like, it is and will be different for everyone. This book is based on 40 women and 53 questions...hardly a wide range of data when by the age forty-five 1 out of every 2.5 women will have an abortion. I do not agree with a lot of what this book has to say. EVERY woman's experience will be different and sometimes the decision made turns out to be the wrong one. This book does not take that into account nor do I feel that it really goes into the depths of the pain that can be felt having to go through such an experience. This book almost makes having an abortion as black and white as most of society has made it. It is not an easy decision, it is one of the hardest that I think anyone could ever have to face. It goes well beyond having a child or not having a child. Finally, my largest complaint about this book is that it dismisses those women who do suffer severe emotional distress afterwards by saying that they were more than likely "unstable prior to their pregnancy"(introduction). That is absolutely absurd. This is such a far reaching decision, why is having "severe emotional trauma following the procedure" any less viable than not suffering severely?

Not all terminated pregnancies are unwanted (as the book refers to the terminated pregnancies over and over again) sometimes they are just unplanned and sometimes there are just too many pressures from the outside world.

I turned to this book in hopes of coming to terms with my own decisions, one I have regretted ever since but this book does not take people like me into account. More needs to be said and done for women who go through this. More needs to be done to help them afterwards.

I am absolutely pro choice and have no religious affiliation so my review of this book is not based on being opposed to abortion whatsoever. Overall, I just feel that this book is very limited and it was not at all beneficial for me. I sincerely hope that others have better results after reading it though. Healing is extremely important.

This is a good book on emotional recovery after an abortion. I was helped by the book. I also derived an extreme amount of comfort from the book An Encounter with a Prophet. Althougt the latter book deals with much more than recovery after an abortion it was most helpful to me and I hope it helps you to.

This is a comprehensive book that speaks to women in all circumstances who have had an abortion and explores every emotion involved -- demonstrating ways to deal with each emotion, that feeling the emotion is "normal", and giving evidence that although women struggle alone to deal with their abortion-- they aren't alone in that its a complicated healing process that many women have experienced if not shared. I wish I had known about this book before my procedure so I had some idea of what I was in store for-- it makes sense of the struggle to deal with it both before and after the fact. As far as I'm concerned, it should be recommended by all professionals whose patients have had abortions.

Free at last, free at last... from the pain and emotional turmoil that having an abortion has put me through. Thanks to this book, psychotherapy, and afterabortion.com, I have been able to heal. Contrary to other reviews "getting over" an abortion is not as easy as you think. If you need this book, it means that you are human and REAL with real feelings, regrets, or dissapointments. This book guides you through exercises that lead to emotional recovery and restructuring that therapy alone could not do. A ***MUST HAVE*** for anyone who has had an abortion!

Any woman who has had an abortion should read this book! After burying my pain for 8 months, deep depression set in. It was only after reading this book and coming to terms with my feelings that my depression began to subside.

This book's title belies the even-handed approach the authors take with an often difficult topic. The book's rich anecdotes and tactical, forward-thinking perspective renders it more than interesting reading: the book is a tool that can be used by women who have had abortions and the men who support them. The Healing Choice should be required reading for hospital and clinic staffs, psychotherapists, and medical school students who need to better understand what follows the termination of a pregnancy. At the end of the day, this book is not about abortion, it's about the process of mending.

At sixteen I had my first abortion and at seventeen my second. This book brought me back to the days of my abortion and made me remember how scared I was and how I never want to do this again. I couldn't put it down I wanted to do all the exercises in one night but with moderation this book can heal pain, and also guilty feelings. By the end of the book I felt like I had really done something for myself and not some hideous thing. This book related to everything I was feeling at 18 years old. It is a must read for any young girl or woman who has experienced this procedure.

Needed a book to take me beyond the emotional pain and this book certainly did not provide that. The book DOES provide proof that there is definitely a need out there for women who have struggled "after abortion".

This is a good book to actually start dealing with the emotions of a terminated pregnancy.It doesnt lecture,its not religious,its like therapy in a book.Thers's excerises for each chapter(questions about your emotions,ect)and even though it wasnt anything new to me,it was asked in a manner that made me explore things more than i had before.

I don't regret my abortion. I don't feel I committed a horrible sin. And yet, I found I had pain and hurt to deal with. All the other books, Her Choice to Heal being one, started off with the premise that I had done something wrong. I needed nonjudgemental help and found it in this book. I highly recommend it.