Abortion and Reenacting Sexual Abuse

Abortion and Reenacting Sexual Abuse: It has been my experience that a high proportion of women suffering post-abortion trauma also have histories of molestation, sexual abuse, or incest. Most other post-abortion counselors with whom I deal have reported a similar observation. In a survey of women in post-abortion counseling groups, 21 percent reported a history of childhood physical abuse and 24 percent reported childhood sexual abuse. And in a random sample survey of the general population, Dianne Russell reports that approximately one in three [33%] girls is sexually abused before age 18 and one in four [25%] is abused by age 14. These alarming statistics have a good deal to do with patterns of abuse and crisis.

Editor: I'm sorry, but comparing the post-abortion group to the general population (percentages in brackets), I don't see the "high proportion" or "alarming" trend.