Across cultures, the prevalent factors that contribute to an abortion include a mother’s unmarried status, a mother’s poor health, adultery, rape, incest, or illegal union (Shain, Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 13(1), 1–17, 1986). An abortion act comes with two types of stigma: stigma from society and stigma from friends/family members. Each person is affected differently by an abortion stigma from society (and not from friends/family), from friends/family (and not from society), or from both society and friends/family. To cope with the shame and guilt from an abortion, concealment of the abortion act from others (or disenfranchised grief) could occur. Yet as a cultural value individualism allows for personal responsibility in an abortion decision, collectivism (a different cultural value) sanctions the input of others prior to an abortion act. An individual’s pre-abortion meaning or postabortion meaning reconstruction (Gillies & Neimeyer, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 19(1), 31–65, 2006) is important as well. Culturally, for some women, an abortion act could become a challenge with gender identity and gender role socialization (as a nurturer or a mother). Following an abortion, there is a de-attachment by the woman from the fetus, and this has physical, cognitive, and emotional implications.