One of the Most Common Beliefs About Abortion Is Officially a Lie
Yes, you read that right.
"There are a lot of ways states try to discourage women from having abortions, and telling them abortion can cause emotional trauma is one of them. But, like many other things lawmakers demand women seeking abortions to hear, a new study found that's not quite true. In fact, the study shows abortion has little impact on a woman's mental health.
The most rigorous study ever of how abortion impacts women's mental health found that it really doesn't. This is good news not only because it means women can exercise their right to terminate a pregnancy without fear of psychological trauma, but it means abortion critics have one less tool to restrict women's access.
The study followed almost 1,000 women who sought abortion, checking on their progress for five years, and there was no evidence of poor mental health. The study did, however, find that women who were denied abortions because their pregnancy was farther along than state regulations allow did experience negative mental health impacts.
“We found no evidence that women who have abortions risk developing depression, anxiety or low self-esteem as a result of the abortion, either immediately following, or for up to five years after the abortion,” M. Antonia Biggs, Ph.D., a social psychologist at UCSF and lead author on the publication, said in a statement. “Women who were denied an abortion had more anxiety and lower self-esteem immediately after being turned away. However, over the subsequent five years, symptoms of anxiety and depression decreased and self-esteem and life satisfaction improved significantly, both for women who received an abortion and for women who were denied care.”
That means the efforts to dissuade women from having an abortion that states like Texas use aren't for the woman's health, but a misleading moral crusade. The good news for women who are denied abortions is those negative mental health effects typically ease after six months, whether the woman delivers her baby or seeks an abortion elsewhere.
This study comes just after Ohio passed a law that restricts abortion access, banning abortions for women who are more than 20 weeks pregnant. Ohio joined five other states with similar restrictions. It also comes as President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his cabinet with abortion opponents like Mike Pence, who tried so hard to limit abortion in Indiana that he caused an HIV outbreak because so many sexual health clinics closed while he served as governor.
Abortion can be a very hard choice for many women, but to us it sounds like common sense that women would experience more trauma by not being able to control their reproductive health and future. Having this study to back that up, though, is extraordinarily valuable."
Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2592320
Conclusion of the study for those too lazy to read it:
"Our study demonstrates that, during a 5-year period, women receiving wanted abortions had similar or better mental health outcomes than those who were denied a wanted abortion. The convergence of most outcomes between groups by 6 months to 1 year suggests that future divergence is unlikely. Given the large number and range of recruitment facilities representing geographically diverse regions in the United States (30 clinics from 21 states), and that our sample demographics are consistent with those of nationally representative samples of women seeking abortion, we believe these results are generalizable.33,34 Thus, there is no evidence to justify laws that require women seeking abortion to be forewarned about negative psychological responses. Women considering abortion are best served by being provided with the most accurate, scientific information available to help them make their pregnancy decisions. These findings suggest that the effects of being denied an abortion may be more detrimental to women’s psychological well-being than allowing women to obtain their wanted procedures."
Emotional and Mental Health After Abortion
What abortion opponents claim: Having an abortion leads to emotional distress, negative feelings or mental health problems.
"In a sample of teenagers who obtained pregnancy tests in 1985–1986, those who terminated a pregnancy were no more likely to have psychological problems two years later than were those who had not been pregnant or had gone on to give birth. In fact, they experienced less negative psychological change than the others.
One week after having an abortion, women in a 2008–2010 study “felt more regret, sadness and anger about the pregnancy than about the abortion, and felt more relief and happiness about the abortion than about the pregnancy.” The likelihood of having a mainly negative emotional response to the abortion increased with the extent to which women had planned the pregnancy and had had difficulty making the abortion decision."
A few more studies/articles on this same topic:
Abortion Doesn’t Negatively Affect Mental Health
That's according to the largest study of its kind
The Turnaway Study
Para ver este contenido en español, clic aquíThe Turnaway Study is ANSIRH’s prospective longitudinal study examining the effects of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. The major aim of the study is to describe the mental health, physical health, and socioeconomic consequences of receiving an...
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Abortion Is Found to Have Little Effect on Women’s Mental Health (Published 2016)
A study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, undermines the claim that women seeking abortions might develop emotional and psychological trauma.
TL;DR: Women like to virtue signal and say that abortions have a very negative effect on their mental health and gives them "trauma" but that's simply not true in most cases and the evidence shows otherwise, in fact killing their own babies makes them happy because they know they can soon enough start getting creampied raw by Chad again. Foids are fucking sociopathic by nature and are NOT the "empathetic gender".
