Why would a woman have multiple abortions?
Several factors can account for this. Dr. Philip Ney points out that pregnancy, like sleep, is a biorhythm. If you are awakened in the middle of the night, your body says, “Go back to sleep.” Many who abort, therefore, feel the urge to get pregnant again. A biorhythm has been interrupted. Many want a “replacement” or “atonement” baby. Yet once pregnant again, they realize (or someone else makes them realize) that the same circumstances that led to the first abortion are still in place. Hence, another abortion follows. Often the mother, pregnant the second time, thinks, “I aborted my first child. I’m not worthy of being a mother. I don’t deserve this child.” And she goes to the abortion mill. Repeat abortions are a sign of ambivalence, and at times of self-punishment. Dr. Theresa Burke also explains, “Repeat abortions and replacement pregnancies are two common ways in which women reenact elements of their abortion trauma” (Forbidden Grief, p.110). As Dr. Ney puts it, “Tragedy is repeate
