The post-abortion syndrome

This phenomenon is reflected, often many years later, in women having abortions, by depression and an impaired defenses, has been demonstrated from the findings of pediatricians or child psychiatrists, including Dr. Mary Peeters (pediatrician, attached consultation at the Necker Hospital). She said that even before the specific manifestations of this syndrome, clinicians can detect a woman suffering from abortion to different signs: she has "something in the eyes of the expression of a child crying for help "this is a woman who does not listen and with whom dialogue is difficult because it is not at peace.

Dr. Mango, New York psychiatrist and expert on post-abortion syndrome, said: "I never met a woman without psychological disorders after abortion, although it has not established a link between the loss of her child and its disorders ". The syndrome can occur more or less time after the abortion, sometimes the next day, but five years or more than 10 years after abortion.


It can be triggered by an event such as bereavement or a new pregnancy. It's a feeling of loss or emptiness that takes hold, but which may be externalized in various forms. Indeed, these feelings are often repressed and suppressed, the woman did not dare to complain or to admit that she suffers, and they reappear in other forms, such as guilt and lack of self esteem . Sometimes it worsens depression, desires of suicide, disturbed emotional relationships, nightmares, anger, inability to express emotions, sexual dysfunction, etc..

Above all, abortion has serious implications for mother-child relationship, the mother is losing to a child she does not know how to look, or do a substitution of a child to which she clings and who has not the freedom to explore the world around him. This attitude is manifest in women whose child was born after one or more abortions: woman relives the same time the previous pregnancy and abortion that are terminated.

A child born is particularly valuable; expected him to be gentle and wise, he will doubtless appear until adolescence, when the opposition or revolt against an attitude too possessive parents. This is where the symptoms of survivor syndrome risk of becoming very visible.