She saw her, but it was futile. She was serruptitiously fettered. She ardently pretended to remonstrate, but was ignored. Her bovine screams reverberated.

That one is good, good words, up until "bovine." I voted for it anyway. "Serruptitiously" needs its first two vowels switched, too.

"Morally questionable" depends entirely on an individual in question's set of morals.

Re: mental aftereffects of abortion: Not necessarily. Some (heavy emphasis on the some - definitely not most, and very probably far less than half) of those who've undergone an abortion have managed to deal with it without a great deal of trouble or trauma. Everything I've come to understand suggests that that's a fairly uncommon occurrence, though, yes.