I suspect the abortion doesn’t cause the problem (in most cases) but the problems caused the woman to get an abortion, and probably more women who are likely to become accidentally pregnant when they are not prepared to have a baby and are willing to abort are also the type who get into bad relationships in the first place.
Accidentally pregnant? How ... by rolling over into the ... oh, nevermind.
Maybe, and correlation doesn’t prove its own cause, but there are so many correlations between abortion and various negative physical, psychological, and social outcomes that the argument of “They were just like that all along,” isn’t all that impressive, except to those for whom, “Killing your unborn child is a meaningless act,” is an article of faith.
I would respectfully disagree. I have personally known a few young women who have had ONE abortion after an unplanned pregnancy. They were not tramps nor were they the types that look for bad boys. They were deeply in love with someone and thought the guy felt the same. In some cases they were right and in some they were wrong. In the cases where they were right the decision is often made because they are convinced they can not tell their parents they are pregnant even if the young man is willing and ready to marry them. They feel the an abortion will take care of the problem and everything will go back to the way it was. Those who are wrong about the guy usually feel depressed, betrayed and that they have no alternative. In both cases when they go to the “Women’s Health Center” they are told an abortion fixes everything. This is how PPH makes their money. These are for the most part nice young women who made a mistake and then compound it by making a much bigger one. A lot of these young women end up with just the problems mentioned in this article. Very few relationships, even the most loving ones, survive an abortion. Regardless of how much they love each other if the couple makes it a year they are beating the odds. The crap the PPH sells to young women at taxpayer expense is a crime and you only hope that someday they will get their just “rewards” for all the loss, pain and suffering they have caused.
I am not saying that your scenario does not exist, it does. I am just asking you not to paint every women who gets an abortion with such a wide brush. Often times on FR people take a real holier than thou attitude on these threads. I would hope for a little more understanding and compassion. Every story is different.