Posted on 11/01/2019 6:55:17 AM PDT by Morgana
(CBS) Do women who have an abortion risk their mental health?
A provocative new study shows that women who have an abortion face an increased risk for mental health problems including substance abuse, anxiety, and depression.
"Results indicate quite consistently that abortion is associated with moderate to highly increased risks of psychological problems subsequent to the procedure," the authors wrote in the study, published in the September 1 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
For the study, researchers analyzed data on 877,000 women, including 164,000 who had an abortion. They found women who had an abortion experienced an 81 percent increased risk for mental problems.
Women who had an abortion were 34 percent more likely to develop an anxiety disorder, 37 percent more likely to experience depression, 110 percent more likely to abuse alcohol, 155 percent more likely to commit suicide, and 220 percent more likely to use marijuana.
Nearly 10 percent of the problems could be attributed to abortion, the authors concluded.
"There are in fact some real risks associated with abortion that should be shared with women as they are counseled prior to an abortion," Dr. Priscilla Coleman, professor of human development and family studies at Bowling Green State University, told the Daily Telegraph.
About 827,000 women have an abortion in the U.S. each year.
Previous research hasn't found a definitive link between an abortion and a woman's mental health.
In 2008, the American Psychiatric Association charged a task force to review scientific evidence on the link between abortion and mental health. They acknowledged women may experience sadness, grief, depression, and anxiety following an abortion, but could not find evidence abortions - and not other factors - caused these effects.
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Stands to reason knowing they’re murderers.
I wonder why killing your children upsets you later in life.
That’s the same logic they use with homosexual and Trans suicide. It’s not that these people are mentally ill to begin with, it’s how society treats them. That may have worked 50 years ago, but today these people are celebrated and revered by society so why are they killing themselves if it’s our fault?
bkmk
During pregnancy from day 1 there are 2 periods during gestation that are known as “Interphase” where the mother and the fetus are essentially one in all ways. The natural order and function of he human body remembers this and the residual impact of removing it prior to birth bears a mark that can be devastating even years later.
My Ex had an abortion when she was 15 and I married her when she was 35 and she had never had children in between. We went through counseling around this and during the sessions which had many other women who had had abortions the residual impact of doing this even though it was “legal” was profound and devastating
Their testimony about it was impactfull and the results in a marriage and testimony of their spouse was gut wrenching
It is far from a victimless event and the proof is well known and destroys many peoples lives and psyche
Guy posts like he's some sort of harem eunuch, doesn't he? Borish bluster and no balls.
FReegards!
‘Give pleasure and she gets knocked up’. The answer is simple. You take the father to the cleaners. ESTABLISH paternity at birth. Why you can’t see these things is beyond me. She doesn’t have to ‘give pleasure’ if she doesn’t want to.
There are a group of guys here who think every dame is a jezebel. A friend of mine here suspects they are all “incels”.
Not surprising at all.
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