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[Image: Two women holding up signs reading “I Regret My Abortion”. End description.]
Largest ever study finds abortion increases risk of severe mental health problems by 81%
“….the largest quantitative estimate of mental health risks associated with abortion available in the world literature.” The research revealed that abortion was associated with a 34% increased risk for anxiety disorders; 37% greater risk of depression; 110% greater risk of alcohol abuse and 220% greater risk of marijuana use/abuse. Abortion was also linked with a 155% greater risk of attempting to commit suicide.
I have said it before….abortion is bad for women.
Whether this study will hold up remains to be seen, but you know what else is bad for uterus-bearers? Forced pregnancy and childbirth. They are a form of torture. If this study does reveal some truth, then it’s further proof that we need to prevent the need for most abortions in the first place—the best way to do that, of course, is with comprehensive sex education and increasing access to birth control, condoms, and other contraceptive methods (so stop defunding Planned Parenthood). But even then, we can never erase the need for it completely.
This study also never clearly defines what a “severe mental disorder” is. Maybe it does, but I have to pay to read the full text, so fuck that. How did the researchers define “severe mental disorder”? Depression? Feelings of regret? Post-Abortion Syndrome (which most major scientists worldwide agree does not exist)? How many of these people had mental health issues already? Who diagnosed them, and how many of them could be misdiagnoses? How many of the people who started “abusing drugs” after the abortion were already users before the procedure? What’s the margin of error? While the study claims to be all-inclusive of these sorts of factors in the abstract, I can’t give it the benefit of the doubt without being able to read the full text. Further, I think a lot of “post-abortion guilt” can easily be attributed to anti-choice stigmas and patriarchy.
Edit: Also, correlation is not causation. This is a logical fallacy.
(Edited for typo.)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqwp01E5XN1qznwj1o1_500.jpg)
[Image: Two women holding up signs reading “I Regret My Abortion”. End description.]
Largest ever study finds abortion increases risk of severe mental health problems by 81%
“….the largest quantitative estimate of mental health risks associated with abortion available in the world literature.” The research revealed that abortion was associated with a 34% increased risk for anxiety disorders; 37% greater risk of depression; 110% greater risk of alcohol abuse and 220% greater risk of marijuana use/abuse. Abortion was also linked with a 155% greater risk of attempting to commit suicide.
I have said it before….abortion is bad for women.
Whether this study will hold up remains to be seen, but you know what else is bad for uterus-bearers? Forced pregnancy and childbirth. They are a form of torture. If this study does reveal some truth, then it’s further proof that we need to prevent the need for most abortions in the first place—the best way to do that, of course, is with comprehensive sex education and increasing access to birth control, condoms, and other contraceptive methods (so stop defunding Planned Parenthood). But even then, we can never erase the need for it completely.
This study also never clearly defines what a “severe mental disorder” is. Maybe it does, but I have to pay to read the full text, so fuck that. How did the researchers define “severe mental disorder”? Depression? Feelings of regret? Post-Abortion Syndrome (which most major scientists worldwide agree does not exist)? How many of these people had mental health issues already? Who diagnosed them, and how many of them could be misdiagnoses? How many of the people who started “abusing drugs” after the abortion were already users before the procedure? What’s the margin of error? While the study claims to be all-inclusive of these sorts of factors in the abstract, I can’t give it the benefit of the doubt without being able to read the full text. Further, I think a lot of “post-abortion guilt” can easily be attributed to anti-choice stigmas and patriarchy.
Edit: Also, correlation is not causation. This is a logical fallacy.
(Edited for typo.)
