Psychological care after an abortion.

A growing number of women looking for a psychological care after an abortion. At first glance this Paris apartment in the fifteenth district, it is like being in the privacy of a family without fuss. The walls refer Yet echo hundreds painful. For here, within the association Agapa, women come entrust what is sometimes the trauma of a lifetime: the abortion. Founded fourteen years ago, instead of listening faces a "distress expressed growing," Marie-Francoise Georges-Picot, vice president of the association. Accompaniments performed by the volunteer team have increased by 20% between 2006 and 2007, and several branches of the association have recently been opened in the provinces. "All the profiles come to us, of all ages, backgrounds, faiths and walks of life," says Claudine Philippot, the dean of the team aconfessionnelle recalling the approach of the association, despite its Christian origins. People who come "are not necessarily close of the event," said Guillemette Porta, a volunteer for four years. Sometimes, abortion took place there ten, twenty or even sixty years, as this woman of 82 years who had recently called, does not digesting "guilt". "Almost 40% of these women" For all the accompanying experience, the general observation is: "If at some point in their lives women in good conscience choose an abortion, often arises distress long after, as a time bomb." Psychiatrist in office since twenty years, Dr. Sophie-Tauss Mathilde says that 30 to 50% of his patients who have experienced this "repressed" have to relive sooner or later this test "with great violence" because "even decided, abortion is never be a banal ". According to figures from INED, "nearly 40% of women have abortions in their lives", which gives rise to some 200000 abortions annually in France. Attendance rose to Agapa but also the recent decision of the Court of Cassation, which has acknowledged that, whatever his age and weight, a fetus could be declared to marital status, according to some observers reflect a "tremor" on the issue of abortion. "The ideological debate that pitted pro-life and pro-abortion sells today gradually replaced by a much more practical: not that the law is challenged by person, abortion is now seen in its psychological effects on women, and the suffering it brings, "says Jean-Marie noted Adrès, vice president of Catholic Family Associations (AFC). For others, the company would start paying the lack of psychological care of abortion. Given the number of women become "depressed", even "a matter of public health to establish forums for listening," said Dr. Mathilde Sophie-Tauss. For Planned Parenthood, this change of "climate", "very conducive to antichoix" and induces widely in Europe by "the alliance of policies Bush and the Vatican in recent years," is "yet another challenge to the freedom of women and their basic rights, "says Maïté Albagly, secretary general of the movement. While many women keep their psychological abortion, "because the culpabilise society," she says, assuring: "There are so many women who are badly that their pregnancy abortions."