Bishop Munilla shares 5 reflections on abortion and postaborto syndrome

Mons. José Ignacio Munilla, Bishop of Orihuela-Aliante (Spain) shared five reflections on abortion and postaborto syndrome, in a publication on their social networks on October 3.

Postabortion Syndrome (SPA) can be defined as the inability of women or man to process their anguish, fear, anger, sadness and guilt for their experience of one or more abortions caused.

And Recent study Made in Canada, he revealed that the hospitalization rate for mental health problems doubled in women who aborted, compared to those who gave birth. In the investigation, more than 1.2 million women were observed.

The publication of Mons. Munilla, entitled “Postaborto Syndrome exists: I have seen it!”, It offers five brief reflections.

1. The woman is the second victim of abortion

“Throughout the years I have been able to verify the deep wounds that abortion can leave in a woman, to the point of turning her into the second victim of abortion (the first is the child, obviously),” says the Spanish bishop.

2. The wounds of the postabortion syndrome

“Not only ‘I have seen’ the wounds of the postaborto syndrome, but I also know various psychological and spiritual heineraries of healing those wounds, to which many thousands of women attend around the world. Others, unfortunately, continue to suffer without knowing where to relieve their pain,” the bishop continues.

One of these initiatives is the Hope Projectborn in 1999 in Chile, a pastoral accompaniment program for the emotional and spiritual healing of people injured by abortion, present in many Latin American countries.

3. An emblematic case

Bishop Munilla then recalled the emblematic case of the “female icon of the American probotist cause: McCorvey Norma (Jane Roe ‘Judicial Psear

“This woman, a symbol of the abortion cause, suffered a deep and painful post -abortion syndrome and, after a therapeutic healing itinerary, became a fervent defender of the provident cause,” he added.

4. The ideology above biology

The Spanish prelate also indicated that “the unique thought that we undo one intends to impose an alternative anthropology, characterized by the reaffirmation of ideology over biology. It is not surprising, therefore, that they now refuse to accept what anyone can see when it is stripped of ideological glasses.”

5th reality vs. ideology

“The same ones who deny post -abortion syndrome also refuse to conduct statistical studies on the incidence of divorce in the psychic health of children, in school failure, etc. They are not willing to make reality ruin their ideology!”, The bishop concluded.

The Government of Spain and Abortion

On October 3, the president of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, announced his claim to include abortion as a constitutional right.

This government initiative was given after the approval of a motion promoted by the councilor of Vox, Carla Toscano, supported by the Popular Party, which urges that “the Government Team of the City of Madrid, through the different areas involved, provides information, in a mandatory, verbal and written, permanent and visible way, on the post -abortion syndrome.”

In the motion, Toscano says that “the psychological and emotional clinical picture associated with the post abortion syndrome was collected in the Psychiatry Reference Manual, the DSM III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), in force between 1980 and 1994. In the DSM IV no longer appears due to political pressure and ideological interests.”

Among other effects of abortion, the motion cites depression, anxiety, guilt, sleep alterations, eating disorders, panic attacks, alcohol and drug use, affectation of sexual behavior, suicidal and attempts to suicide, internal hemorrhages, infections and increased cancers in the female reproductive system.

The approval of this motion has unleashed in the country a strong political and media dispute, on the argument that the consequences of abortion in women are not scientifically recognized as a syndrome.