Conscious Abortion: Engaging the Fetus in a Compassionate Dialogue

Since Antiquity, abortion has been a universal human experience and persists even if laws forbid it. Using clinical data, we will look at abortion from the perspective of both the conflicted mother and her conscious, relational fetus. A compassionate mother-fetus dialogue seems more respectful of the fetus and mothers describe it as healing. A miscarriage often follows it. Fathers or partners, relatives, friends and practitioners close to the mother can also have these conversations with a fetus to be aborted. This means of communicating with and listening to a fetus/newborn can be useful in a myriad of other pre/peri/neonatal situations.