Conference Held for Men Struggling with their Role in Abortion
Recognition and help for men is long overdue say experts.
OneNewsNow reports that a second national conference on the negative effects of abortion on men has been held because of profound regret and grief after an involvement in an abortion decision. Vicki Thorn of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing was quoted as saying consideration and care for post-abortive fathers is long overdue.
"It's time we begin speaking about it, and that was my intent in being able to organize these two conferences—that we begin to speak through the veil of science about the fact that there's more than one partner in this," said Thorn. "The pregnancy didn't occur in a vacuum, and so there is both a woman and a man that are involved. I've had calls from men from the very beginning, when I first started doing post-abortion work, risking to share their experiences and seeing that, within the society, there's no validation for the fact that a male might suffer afterwards."
