Women Who Have Abortions Suffer Long-Term Mental Health Issues: FALSE!

There has been one extremely annoying and completely false accusation anti-choicers always make a point to bring up during any interaction, conversation, debate, whatever you want to call it. Without fail, as soon as you bring up a point about why women should actually have a say over their own bodies, you will hear ‘But women who have abortions suffer from depression and other long-term mental health issues or “post-abortion syndrome!”‘ So for anyone who has found themselves in these types of altercations, instead of saying ‘no, you’re talking out of your ass because that’s a complete myth made up by people who think fearmongering is awesome,’ you can now throw some studies at them and call them out on their exploitation of false accusations to back up a biased political agenda. Fun!

Researchers out of Johns Hopkins University has proven that there has been no legitimate, identifying study done that could possibly show that having an abortion causes health or emotional distress whatsoever, including “post-abortion syndrome.” The researchers reviewed all English-language publications between 1989 and 2008 that studied the relationship between abortion and long-term mental health and analyzed those that included mental health measures and also factored in pre-existing mental health status.

“The best quality studies indicate no significant differences in long-term mental health between women in the United States who choose to terminate a pregnancy and those who do not,” they wrote.

They also added this little gem just for the anti-choicers:

“Based on the best available evidence, emotional harm should not be a factor in abortion policy. If the goal is to help women, program and policy decisions should not distort science to advance political agendas,” added Vignetta Charles, a researcher and doctoral student at Johns Hopkins who worked on the study.

What!? You mean people just make stuff up to support their political agenda? No way!

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  2. digitalfever says:

    I have also read that “Those who reported having had an abortion experienced nearly twice the level of mental health problems as those who had either given birth or never been pregnant. They also had three times the risk of major depressive illness compared to the other groups.”

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  4. craft fairs says:

    Good artickle, I like it. I just cant understand, why did they denied the post-abortion syndrome. I comed across with women who suffered from it.

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