Abortion Causes Trauma, Expert Testifies
 (June
8, 2009) Although many women believe that abortion is safer than childbirth, the
trauma among women who undergo an abortion appears to be a sleeping giant that
won’t go away, according to a researcher who testified before a state senate
committee.
Moodiness, sudden and uncontrollable crying
episodes, and low self-esteem are some of the woes suffered by women who have
had abortions, as reported in testimony before the Wisconsin State Senate last
year over a bill that would ensure that abortion remain legal in Wisconsin if
Roe v. Wade were overturned. Roe v. Wade is the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision
legalizing abortion.
In the weeks leading up to the bill’s failure in March
2008, the Senate heard from various opponents of S.B. 398. None perhaps was more
compelling than that of a practicing psychotherapist with over 30 years of
specialization in the treatment of trauma and grief associated with induced
abortion.
“Now with over three decades of legal abortion,” said Vincent M.
Rue, co-director of the Institute for Pregnancy Loss in Jacksonville, FL, “the
scientific evidence is increasingly clear that abortion places women’s mental
health at risk, even for those who have never had mental health problems
previously.”
Rue cited several studies, one of which was a
large study of
women in California, in which women who had abortions made 63% more claims of
psychiatric problems within 90 days after pregnancy resolution than women who
delivered their babies.
Planned Parenthood, on the other hand, calls
post-abortion syndrome a “false idea.” The debate about the syndrome also
entered national politics
during last year’s presidential election.
Attention
to Post Abortion Syndrome Diverted
Post-partum blues are well known, but when
it comes to mental health after an abortion, much of the national attention has
centered on a woman’s “right to choose” rather than the emotional after-effects
that many women experience.
Women in Berwyn, Cicero, N. Riverside and other
western Chicago suburbs should learn about the possible emotional consequences
of abortion by calling WomanCare Services at 708-795-6000.
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