One of the biggest lies about the abortion experience is that it does not effect the fathers of these children. From my own experience and the experience of men that I have talked to, it has a profound effect and an effect that continues throughout one’s life, although the dehibilitng effect begins to lessen. If
I’ve been a student of Fatherhood Lost by abortion for a number of years. Hundreds of men have related the difficulties they have had adjusting to the aftermath of losing their child. Men are more private by nature than women and they have different ways of dealing with grief. Even Robert Frost, in his poem
David Murrow (2011) recently wrote a book called, Why Men Hate Going to Church. In the book he states, “Here’s the truth about men that will thrill you or terrify you. Men don’t follow religions. Men don’t follow philosophies. Men don’t follow ideas. Men follow men” (p. 168). I think Mr. Murrow was specifically talking