Birthmothers are often reported to experience serious psychological problems due to the inability to elaborate their loss and
to cope with their grief. It is true that grief and sense of loss may accompany both abortion and after-birth abortion as well
as adoption, but we cannot assume that for the birthmother the latter is the least traumatic. For example, ‘those who grieve
a death must accept the irreversibility of the loss, but natural mothers often dream that their child will return to them. This
makes it difficult to accept the reality of the loss because they can never be quite sure whether or not it is irreversible’.
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