- Each year, more than 100,000 women lose a baby they want
to a miscarriage that results from complications of a prior
abortion.
- The minimum rate of immediate physical complications
following legal abortions, based on reported figures, is
fully ten percent.
- Long-term complications, usually afflicting the
reproductive system, occur in 20 to 50 percent of all women
who abort.
- The risk of reproductive damage is highest for teenagers
and for women who abort their first pregnancies.
- Ninety percent of women who abort experience emotional
and psychiatric stress following an abortion. Up to 10
percent require psychiatric hospitalization or other
professional treatment.
Source: Reardon, David, Ph.D. Aborted
Women, Silent No More.
Facts Every Pro-Lifer Should Know about Post-Abortion
Syndrome
|
"Abortion has a painful
aftermath, regardless of the woman's religious
beliefs, or how positive she may have felt
beforehand about her decision to abort."
Vincent Rue, Ph.D., psychologist |
Each year, more than 100,000 women lose a baby
they want to a miscarriage that results from
complications of a prior abortion.
The minimum rate
of immediate physical complications following legal
abortions, based on reported figures, is fully ten
percent.
Long-term complications, usually
afflicting the reproductive system, occur in 20 to 50
percent of all women who abort.
- The risk of reproductive
damage is highest for teenagers and for women
who abort their first pregnancies.
Ninety percent of women who abort
experience emotional and psychiatric stress
following an abortion.
- Up to 10 percent require psychiatric
hospitalization or other professional
treatment.
- 15,000 to 30,000 women per year face
emotional trauma severe enough to render
them unable to work.
- Women who have had abortions are nine
times more likely to commit suicide than
those who haven't.
Post-abortion stress increases the
probability that a woman will later become
involved in a pattern of child battery.
More than 200,000 American women who have
had abortions have been sufficiently hurt
to join post-abortion support organizations like
Women Exploited by Abortion, Victims of Choice,
and American Victims of Abortion. This number
includes those willing to say they have been
hurt by abortion. Countless others may suffer in
embarrassed silence.
Source:
Reardon, David, Ph.D. Aborted Women, Silent No
More.
Possible Physical Effects to Women
|
Immediately |
Later: |
|
intense pain |
sterility |
|
punctured uterus
|
miscarriages/stillbirths |
|
excessive bleeding
|
tubal pregnancies |
|
parts of baby left inside
|
premature births |
|
shock/coma pelvic
|
inflammatory disease |
|
damage to
other organs
|
hysterectomy |
Possible Emotional Effects to Women (the most
common)
|
Immediately
|
Later: |
| guilt |
emotional numbness |
| desire to be pregnant again |
sexual problems |
| depression/crying |
lowered self-esteem |
| inability to forgive self |
anorexia/eating disorders |
| intense grief and sadness |
nightmares |
| anger/rage/suicidal urges |
drug or
alcohol abuse |