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If you’re a man and you’ve had a lover terminate a pregnancy, Greg Hasek is a licensed counselor who knows how to make you suffer.

First, he’ll tell you to draw a picture of what your child would look like today if he hadn’t been killed.
Nothing yet? On goes the sentimental music. Tears in Heaven, maybe.
“Guys can’t withstand it,” Hasek says. You might start to weep.
But if you’re still not feeling it (or as Hasek would put it, “still in denial” about the abortion’s impact), he might take you to a playground and tell you to imagine how old your child would be, how he might run around and play with the other kids - if he were here.

The non-medical term for this is ‘messing with your head’; the medical one is malpractice. Therapists like Hasek (who happens to be the executive director of an Oregon clinic) are in a position of power and trust in relation to their clients, and when they coerce feelings of loss, they can easily make them a reality.

And this is how you create a “Post-Abortion Syndrome” man to rally for your cause: you create the image of a wonderful (born) son or daughter, you encourage the man to feel connected and entitled to it, and then you convince him that he’s “lost” this imaginary child. In other words, you use your psychological expertise to create an unquenchable desire for something that has never and can’t ever exist. Men like Hasek have formed a profession around cultivating pain under the guise of “healing.”

This isn’t anything new, of course - “post-abortive” counselors working with pro-life organizations have been using similar tactics for years to turn shaken women into self-proclaimed repentant murderers. But getting your significant other to regret your abortion is a relatively new trick. Let’s hope these people never hook up with the Dog Whisperer; they might be able to get your poodle to regret your abortion, too.