Placenta encapsulation specialist shares abortion story
I feel like I didn’t realize how much I needed to tell this story until it was happening…. And how I felt afterwards really showed me a part of myself that had stopped kind of living after the abortion experience.
It just reopened a part of my life that I had closed so firmly…. I feel like whenever you close something like that, other things are affected, other parts of yourself are affected….
It’s more of a subtle inward change that I experienced.
~ Amanda Englund, post-abortive mother, doula, and professional placental encapsulation service specialist on how she arrived at sharing her abortion story on The Abortion Diary Podcast, Huffington Post, September 18

Something stopped kind of living all right.
I thought that abortion was supposed to be a private thing between a woman, her doctor, her god, yoga instructor, etc. Wasn’t “the right to privacy” what Roe was about? So why all this sharing with millions of strangers?
No matter how you wrap it up in pretty papers and ribbons….your abortion is child murder. Nothing you say can make us accept it.
Ive always said that any woman who talks in circles is guilty as charged and they will continue to make comments like this to lighten their load.
I believe the ? one day was what would someone call Tiller if he were here today. TS said baby killer and I backed him. Why do so many get up in arms when people talk about calling a spade a spade. If you are murdering a baby in utero then deal with it. Baby killer is a fair and accurate name for an abortionist.
There is that ? Again. Are all aborting mothers victims? No! I know many who have been quite casual about it but like the grown women that they were they still signed the stack of abortion papers. They did not leave. They did not cry. You cant make people feel remorse when they dont feel it. Maybe down the road. Maybe never.
It’s weird watching these wendy davis types on huffpost fumbling with the ball of the post-abortive experience. They try to treat it like a torch they carry in honor of women who want freedom from motherhood, but it becomes as awkward as it sounds… ultimately, they are celebrating a very particular kind of loss that puts them in the same category as those who have lost children, born and unborn in other unfortunate ways, but in it separates them from these also because they made the choice, often times influenced for the worst by those who were supposed to support them, so this is a sickness that is being addressed, but it is not being fully exposed. Is it being accorded the rights and freedoms needed for these wendy davis conformists to conform to a rational consensus about their experience being on of healing though, namely because abortion scars it’s victims, and steals the feminine essence, emasculating men? It will be interesting to see the way they position the fig leaf once it comes home and to see if they can take it fully out into the open, or if they try more optical illusions to cover the sacred truth.