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Summary: Blessed Be, we are not alone! (Great book!)
Review: 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!
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Summary: Of no help to me afterwards
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not the whole truth
Review: The title alone should have told me enough not to look any further. The deep grief that our society is suffering, both in women who have had abortions and those loved ones around them, is profound and too important to be treated with an ideological lockstep approach. As someone who as a young person sat by and watched as my older sister had an abortion, I know that there is more to it than "choice;" this touches many people. This book doesn't take into account the whole reality of abortion's effects on the whole fragile fabric of family and friends. Regardless of whether you think abortion is right or wrong, our society is suffering and ideological books such as this ultimately hurt women. Get 'Forbidden Grief' for a truely wholistic approach and response to this gaping wound in our society.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: 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.
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Summary: Break through the pain
Review: Whatever stages you go through. You go through something. This book is great for people who like to write down and be able to go back and reflect. It helps to let it all out somewhere.My pychotherapist (a result of my abortion) had me buy this book and we went through a lot of it together. I am not 100%, but I have hope. And that is more than what I started with.
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