lifetime of regret and depression for him and his girlfriend. He felt as much pain and regret for the sorrow he had caused his girlfriend as for the death of their child. Until he found healing, the time before Father’s Day each year was filled with guilt and shame. (1)
In other cases, fathers wanted their children and were extremely distressed at their inability to protect their child. In a few cases, suicides of men have been linked to the loss of a child to abortion.(2) Sometimes a young man feels like he had no right to interfere with her choice so he says he will support whatever she decides. She concludes he doesn’t really want the baby and might be resentful of her imposing the responsibility of the child on him. Not wanting to “entrap” him or be a single mother, she plans an abortion. One young man took his girlfriend to the clinic but then came out and asked two men who were praying outside how he could stop her from aborting. When they asked if he had told her his feelings, he said no! So they sent him inside to tell her and they soon both came out and went home. In another case, 30 years after helping his girlfriend get an abortion, a man’s wife insisted that he get help for his anger. Counseling uncovered the abortion as the root cause, which had distanced him from God and affected all his relationships. Participating in a healing program for fathers enabled him to forgive and find forgiveness, and to experience a new joy in life! (3)
1.
http://www.lifenews.com/2018/06/14/fathers-the-forgotten-victims-of-abortion/
2.
http://afterabortion.org/2018/mens-pain-and-need-for-healing-after-abortion-is-real/
3. Jerald, “Freedom” testimony
http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/testimonies/testimony.aspx?ID=2791