Digest Number 423

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mind sets for abortion
Sourush did ask a specific question.

For a woman exhausted by day to day chores, possibly caring for other
children, feeling in lack of support and that she can't cope - how about
Sepia?
For a young girl panic stricken at thought of parents' reaction? How about
staphisagria? pulsatilla?
For one who cannot contemplate social stigma of single parenthood - silica?
lycopodium?
For one lacking the maturity to cope with contraception - baryta carb? Too
suggestible - pulsatilla? Regularly too drunk - nux vomica? medorrhinmum?
What about for one who sees no problem at all with abortion as a form of
emergency 'contraception' ? Remember this was for many years the prevailing
ethos in Russia and some other countries and also that the 'morning after
pill' is open to the same ethical/religious crticisms as abortion. Ethics
DO vary from society to society and even from one social milieu to another.
Relatively few people even question the ideas surrounding them, contemporary
viewpoints, and it is naive to think otherwise. We in the West at the moment
are living in a more open society in that respect than has ever existed
before or exists elsewhere, but we are not essentially that different.
Anyway, for this woman I would suggest - nothing.

Likewise, post-abortion:
For a woman smitten with grief/guilt, short-tem or long term ( and I accept
Stuart's point that women are often unprepared for this) - ignatia, natrum
mur, staphysagria?
For a woman who feels none of these things ( see above) - nothing.

I suppose the point I am making is that we do not prescribe for 'events' and
'decisions' but for reactions and responses, physical and emotional, and
unless we can see them we cannot invent them or speculate on what we think
they should be.

Perhaps others might be prepared to expand on the rubrics and remedies
touched on above?

Theresa