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PBS301H: Paul Swope

Abortion: A failure to communicate

A New Understanding of the Trauma of Abortion

A New Understanding of the Trauma of Abortion (2013), with Charles Kenney

Women carry an unwanted pregnancy to term when guilt wins out over shame, when they feel that the pregnancy will not end their own current and future selves, and that the unborn will be better off alive than dead.