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Complex motivations for abortion not perceived by some doctors, the scale and reality of abortion in medical practice, unconscious fantasies experienced by some abortionists, and the reactions of general practitioners, psychiatrists, and gynecologists to abortion are discussed. Most women are in a state of acute stress when they request abortion, psychological suffering based on normal ambivalence or sometimes on personality problems. Some doctors are incapable of accepting pluralism, of separating morality from psychology, and do not realize the numbers of abortions being performed. Some analysts have found voyerism, exhibitionism, aggression, oedipal conflicts and manicheanism inherent in the act of abortion by a male operator. General practitioners, usually the 1st to be approached, see a panicked woman ready to agree to anything in order to convince the doctor to grant her an abortion; they often respond by treating her as a symptom. Psychiatrists may range from very analytical to perfunctory in signing the required form. They are faced with the paradox that only healthy women can handle an abortion, but only in neurotic women are abortions justified. Gynecologists have problems because abortion patients rarely return for other care, forcing them to perform abortion procedures only. Some develop depression, hypersexuality, or even become opposed to abortions.
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