I Had No Say: The Silent Grief of Men After Abortion

Nobody checked on him. Not on the drive home. Not the next morning when he went back to work and smiled like nothing happened. Not in the weeks that followed, when something inside him went quiet in a way he didn’t have a name for yet. The world had a lot to say about abortion. It just never got around to asking the man in the waiting room how he was doing. I Had No Say is that conversation — finally, honestly, and without apology. Written by U.S. Army veteran, entrepreneur, and author Kenny Wynn, this deeply personal and surprisingly necessary book walks into the room that everyone else has been tiptoeing around. With equal parts raw honesty and hard-won compassion, Wynn explores what happens to a man after a partner’s abortion — the grief that has no funeral, the guilt that moves like molasses, the identity loss that nobody warned him about, and the slow, quiet road back to himself. This is not a political book. There is no villain in these pages. There is only the truth — that two people walk out of that experience carrying something heavy, and only one of them has ever been handed a resource for it. Until now. If you have been carrying something you could never quite name — something that surfaces in the quiet moments, in the dark hours, in the spaces between the life you are living and the one you thought you were building — this book was written for you. You are not broken. You are not alone. And you are not the first man to wonder why nobody ever thought to ask. Welcome to the conversation that was always supposed to happen. Kenny Wynn is the author of The Power of Mental Wealth alongside Les Brown, Heather Monahan, and foreword by Johnny Wimbrey. He is a U.S. Army veteran, public speaker, entrepreneur, husband, father, and believer based in Texas Read more