What does it mean to dream about abortion?
A dream of abortion often reflects feelings about a difficult choice, an ending, or something set aside, and carries no judgment.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would look at the dream as the mind handling a hard decision or a wish to undo or release something. He would read it as feeling given form rather than a comment on right and wrong. The question is what the dreamer associates with the ending.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see an ended pregnancy as a plan, a path, or a possibility the dreamer has chosen to let go. The image can mark grief, relief, or both at once over something not brought to term. He would hold it without blame and ask what was being released.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Under the continuity view, such dreams tend to follow real choices, regrets, relief, or the sense of closing a chapter. The mind continues by night what it has been weighing by day. The dreamer's own feeling is the surest guide to its meaning.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Across traditions, the closing of a path was marked by rites that allowed for both sorrow and release. Stories of choices not taken and futures set aside recur in many cultures. They acknowledged that an ending can be a kind of passage too.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Brewer).