My opinions against abortion were formulated over many years of observation and personal experience in dealing with the consequences suffered by mothers who opted to have one or more abortions. The most striking observation that I noted was the large number of women who developed moderate to severe mental depression, guilt and anxiety over having abortion, and often with onset several years after the procedure. Most, however, noted onset relatively soon afterward. Guilt and self-condemnation were, most often, the most difficult of symptoms to deal with, because no amount of talk, no type of psychotherapy, and no known medication is able to erase the recognition and realization that they have willfully and intentionally lost a part of themselves. Just as an amputee who has lost a leg spends the rest of his life with the realization of that loss but learns to cope with it, the same is true of the woman who has had an abortion. The memory of what was once there never goes away. If it did, the woman would not truly be human. Just as an amputee may have flashes of “phantom limb” pain years later if not for the rest of their life, so a woman who has amputated an unborn child from her womb may have psychological pain, remorse and guilt for the remainder of her life. Psychiatrists and psychologists will not cure that. They are not called to engineer built-in happiness, again, into people’s life circumstances. They can only help them to cope and function.