Emotional reaction Moral convictions have this intuitive power that makes them feel as if they must be true. This explains why/how anti-choice people like John Azzopardi (February 18) perceive the immorality of abortion to be a fact when, actually, it is a matter of their subjective state of mind and what they attach moral significance to. For the record, the evidence that 19 out of every 20 women do not regret having abortions is found in the study of Rocca et al (Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion: an examination of decision difficulty and abortion stigma) published in Social Science & Medicine, Volume 248, March 2020, 11270 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619306999).