Abortion is a choice that changes people

By Martin Barillas
Sunday, May 18, 2008

No one, whether a mother, father, or family member touched by reproductive loss, deals with grief and loss in the same way. “I was completely unprepared for the emotional fallout,” says Michaelene Fredenburg, author of “Changed: making sense of your own and a loved one’s abortion experience” about her abortion in a new book on loss experienced from abortion. “For years I suffered in silence,” she remembers.

A victim of abortion herself, Fredenburg, a speaker and commentator on abortion and loss, based her book and website on personal experience, and testimony from others touched by abortion. Fredenburg has spoken before the US Congress on depression caused by abortion and appropriate responses. She has also begun a national outreach effort “Abortion Changes You™” and as well as writing “Changed.” the rest