The New York Times Sunday Magazine contains a lengthy piece on "post-abortion syndrome", a concept of emotional trauma caused to women by abortion that is largely unsupported by medical research, and the anti-abortion activists who use the concept as a weapon against women's reproductive options. The article delves into the medical research, the history of the notion of "post-abortion syndrome," and the activists who support and refute the concept. It covers a wide range of relevant issues, and you should really just read it for yourself.
The bottom line, in my opinion, is that women who need psychological help after abortion (whether related directly to the abortion or otherwise) should be able to get it without shame, and women who do not feel traumatized after abortion should not be made to feel defective or manipulated into blaming abortion for other problems. Women should receive medically accurate information from anti- and pro- forces alike. Let each woman feel her choice in her own way, rather than using some women's emotions to deny options to all women.
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MeSH Tags: Abortion, Induced/Psychology
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