Post-Abortion Healing Resources

If you or someone you know is suffering from the fallout due to an abortion, click here for a list of the counseling centers in New Jersey.
 
Or click one of the links below for a list of centers outside New Jersey:

Possible Psychological Effects of Abortion:

  • Intense guilt / shame
  • Desire to end relationship with partner
  • Hatred of persons connected with abortion
  • Re-experience of abortion
  • Suicidal impulses
  • Mourning / withdrawal
  • Loss of confidence
  • Eating disorders
  • Hostility / anger
  • Anniversary syndrome
  • Anxiety over fertility and pregnancy issues
  • Interrupted bonding process with other children
  • Inability to forgive oneself

Possible Physical Effects:

  • Sterility
  • Miscarriages
  • Ectopic Pregnancies
  • Stillbirths
  • Hemorrhage
  • Infection
  • Shock and comas
  • Perforation of uterus or cervix
  • Retained placenta or fetal parts
  • Intense pain
  • Loss of body organs
  • Decreased work capacity