[Desdemona]

Well, DUH!!!!!

The Russians knew about this in the 30's.

[GodsLittleOne]

Solution? Don't have an abortion. Wow, problem solved.

[monkey]

Public interest in the health effects of abortion was last raised in 1989 Surgeon General Koop reviewed the research on abortion at the request of President Reagan. Koop concluded that all the studies done up to that point was so methodologically flawed that no firm conclusions could be drawn about abortion's risks or benefits.

In a letter to the outgoing president, Koop recommended that a major federally funded longitudinal study of abortions health risks was the only way to secure definitive answers. His proposal for a major study died in the Democratically controlled congress, however, when abortion advocates argued that the appeal for such research was politically motivated and a waste of tax payer dollars.

Koop is right; a study like this isn't very meaningful. Women who have abortions are far more likely to have all sorts of problems in their lives. Excluding women with prior psychiatric care helps, but only a little.

Even a detailed study like Koop is suggesting has limited value. Women who get abortions may be fundamentally different than women who don't, in ways that can't be captured by any metric. Proof of causation - abortion causes poor mental health - will always be tenuous.

Of course, in our "smoking is dumb" PR society, maybe the stigma of being cukoo will work better than the stigma of murderous selfishness.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Having an Abortion is a very traumatic experience.
Regardless of what pro abortion advocates tell you, deep down you know your killing a defenseless human being.
Sometimes guilt is a good thing IMHO

[jlogajan]

I wouldn't be surprised. Having some religious wacko screaming "Murderer! Murderer!" in your face is bound to unsettle anyone.

Live births remain 8 times more deadly than abortions, however. And even live births result in post-partum depression, etc.

So women face the choice of a 63% greater risk of depression if they abort versus an 800% greater risk of dying in child birth if they go to term.

Life is full of choices. Be pro-choice.

[Salman]

By examining Medi-Cal records for 173,000 low-income California women, the research team compared the rate of psychiatric outpatient treatments for women who had abortions versus those who carried to term. To control for differences in prior psychological health, they excluded all women who had any psychiatric care for a year prior to their pregnancy outcome.

What a no-brainer. I'd also like to see the statistics on women who never got pregnant at all. You'd need that really to pin it down.

[Destructor]

"Women Need More Mental Health Treatment After Abortion, New Study Finds"

The key word here is "more."

[Saundra Duffy]

Ask Shelley Winters. She's still hurting . . . after all these years.