I'm a mental health worker. Every female patient I have worked with who has been vulnerable enough to disclose a previous abortion struggled with regret and sadness. It leaves heavy heavy emotional scars that planned parenthood and pro-choice advocates never acknowledge or prepare women for.

I had a slight case of vicarious trauma when a female patient told me how planned parenthood gave her the pills to take home and abort the child with. She was never prepared for what she would actually see and experience. I wasn't prepared for what she told me. First time in my 10+ years as a therapist that I felt physically nauseous in a session and afterwards at home.