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I'm confused about what you said about the Turnaway Study, because from what I've read it said that 95% of women who got abortions do not regret getting one. I wasn't able to find your claim that 95% of women who were denied an abortion didn't regret not getting one.
So I quoted the data wrong, it's actually 96% of women denied abortion reported not wishing they'd had one five years later. Sorry about that, I've corrected the post and changed the link.
Look on page 126 of the Turnaway Study book:
4% responded "yes" or "don't know" when asked if they still wish they could have had an abortion. 100% - 4% = 96% responded "no", they did NOT still wish they could have had an abortion. Here's the specific study that statistic comes from, which used data from the Turnaway Study.
Secular Pro-Life also made two detailed blog posts analyzing this statistic, here and here.
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https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-statement-on-new-study-on-womens-mental-health-after-receiving-or-being-denied-abortion
So one big problem with the study they linked in their article is they are using the data from the Turnaway study. They claim, "This analysis includes all 5 years (11 interview waves) of data from the Turnaway Study." I have already talked about the issues with the Turnaway Study. The scientific article below explains the many flaws of the Turnaway study:
The Turnaway Study, conducted by abortion advocates at thirty abortion clinics, reportedly proves that 95 percent of women have no regrets about their abortions and that abortion causes no mental health problems. But a new exposé reveals that the authors have misled the public, using an unrepresentative, highly biased sample and misleading questions. In fact, over two-thirds of the women approached at the abortion clinics refused to be interviewed, and half of those who agreed dropped out. Refusers and dropouts are known to have more postabortion problems. In fact, ANSIRH’s own data actually revealed that beyond this first week, the women denied an abortion who actually did carry to term had significant improvements in anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. Indeed, the researchers admitted that they could observe no significant differences between the groups. But this is only admitted in the details of the study, not the abstract, conclusions, or news releases. But ANSIRH’s spin how aborting women did as well as those who gave birth actually includes an admission most damaging to their own ideology. Specifically, ANSIRH’s own evidence suggests that there are no persistent mental health risks associated with women being denied an abortion. In other words, an equally valid headline would read: “Women Denied Abortions Face No Long-Term Mental-Health Problems.” That may help to explain why ANSIRH chose to elevate a single anxiety score accessed eight days after begin turned away from an abortion (including the anxiety of women still looking for an alternative place to get an abortion) into their misleading claim that women who are denied abortions may face more mental health problems than women who are provided abortions
For further evidence on the effect abortion has on mental health:
Women who had undergone an abortion experienced an 81% increased risk of mental health problems, and nearly 10% of the incidence of mental health problems was shown to be attributable to abortion.
Lastly, three paragraphs of the Planned Parenthood article is them bragging to the reader how great they are. I would take anything PP says with a grain of salt because they have been caught lying many times before and change information to mislead people. There are much better women's healthcare resources available than PP that offer free services, unlike PP.
#anti abortion#abortion#prolife#pro life#asks#pro-life#ask#pp#planned parenthood#turnaway study#abortion research#abortion studies#mental health#abortion harms women
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First Book of 2024!
My New Year's Resolution this year was to finish all the books on my "to be read" list. Proud to announce that less than one week in, I have crossed my first book off the list!
The Turnaway Study describes a yearslong endeavor in which over a thousand women across the US were interviewed every six months about the consequences of whether they received or were denied an abortion. These women were either just below or just above the cutoff point in their state (study took place pre-overturning of Roe v. Wade), and tracked their life progress over the course of five years. The mix of personal narratives and data analysis is well balanced and makes for a compelling read for anyone interested in the real consequences of getting (or not getting) an abortion in America.
For my next book, I may turn to something lighter. 😅 Either keep reading my book about pre-modern Chinese history or start the Hand of Thrawn Duology.
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The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster is a superb and necessary book. It's the first major study done to get scientific data to compare women who couldn't get an abortion compared to women who did—rather than doing a study comparing women who got an abortion to all women who had a child, which includes wanted and planned pregnancies.
The study has a lot of learnings that I expected—but also a lot of learnings that I didn't. It's remarkably even-handed and open. But overall, its point of view is that the data shows that women accurately weigh consequences and judge for themselves whether it's the right time for them to have a child. The reasons women give for not wanting a child are carried out in the data—for example, many women say they don't have the money to raise a child, and women who are forced to carry a child to term struggle financially. Women deserve the "dignity of risk"—the right to make their own decisions, even ones they might regret—and the data shows that overwhelmingly, women who choose to get an abortion and get one do not regret it.
Now, if you believe that abortion is murder, the data from this study can't prove you right or wrong. What it can do is target misconceptions and take down conjecture. Conservatives like to argue in recent years that barriers to abortion are necessary to protect women's health. But based on the statistics, legal abortion is extremely safe (far safer than carrying a child to term). This study tells us what the actual consequences of having an abortion or being denied an abortion are—in terms of mental health, domestic violence, life satisfaction, happiness and development of existing and future children, and more.
This book is so full of vital knowledge I didn't anticipate, but the biggest one for me personally was its analysis of late-term abortions. This study showed that the main reasons for late-term abortions were learning about a pregnancy late and being delayed due to the financial and bureaucratic difficulties of accessing an abortion. She makes the case that late-term abortions could be vastly reduced if getting an abortion was easier, and that improving sex ed, contraceptive access, and other resources would help women catch pregnancies earlier. It is very rare that a woman takes a long time to decide whether abortion is right for her—she seems to make a decision quickly as soon as she knows.
The book includes a good conclusion and analysis of what will come or could come with laws against abortion, written first before Trump's presidency and then with her read on the situation upcoming to the Supreme Court. There were only one or two small flaws. One is that a couple times, she mentions obesity without any real discussion of more general fatphobia. Second, I sometimes got mixed up in her double-negatives or refutations. But overall, this book was incredibly informative and fascinating.
Content warnings for miscarriage, sexual assault, fatphobia, trauma/medical trauma, misogyny, abuse.
#the turnaway study#diana greene foster#reproductive justice#reproductive freedom#abortion is a right#abortion is healthcare#my book reviews
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Essential Feminist Texts Booklist
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
A Vindication of The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone
Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jessica Valenti
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women by Alicia Malone
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
Is This Normal?: Judgment-Free Straight Talk about Your Body by Dr. Jolene Brighten
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jennifer Gunter
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D
Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath
#intersectional feminism#feminism#feminist#simone de beauvoir#alice walker#women's health#women empowerment#womens rights#intersectionality#social justice#patriarchy#purity culture#female gaze#female excellence#female power#fertility#libido#female writers#it girl#femme fatale#female sexuality#female reader#women in art#women in history#the feminine urge#high value mindset#dream girl#queen energy#dark feminine energy#high value woman
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also, the reason why abortion cannot be seen as an authentic expression of personal freedom to choose is because the overwhelming number of abortions occur because the woman felt pressured into the decision by any number of constraining factors, primarily financial hardship, but also including social pressure: e.g. her partner doesn't want children and has threatened to leave if she doesn't abort; or her family disapproves of the pregnancy (sometimes from a stigma of being pregnant out of wedlock). It's almost exactly the same social and financial pressures that force women into prostitution. Just like prostitution, its legalization does not solve the fundamental social problems that cause it to be positioned by an oppressive society as a solution, and just like prostitution it is marketed by the industry as a "freeing" choice in order to condition women into accepting the economic and social inequalities of society.
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adult women have a heartbeat too, until they are driven to suicide by anti-feminist forced-birthers.
Normally I'd just delete boring asks from genocidal forced-stillbirthers. However, this pro-abort has made a pervasive claim that needs to be debunked. Let's break this down.
1) Weird of you to assume I think heartbeats are what make humans people. In fact, if YOU think that's true, it's just another example of the capitalist mindset of pro-aborts that humans must be able to "produce" some kind of proof of their humanity to "earn" their basic rights. People are not defined by productivity.
2) Of course I care about women with heartbeats, just as I care about every other human life. Had you read my FAQs as instructed, that would have been obvious to you.
3) THIS is the claim that deserves to be tackled: that women are driven to suicide due to lack of access to abortions. You're gonna need to dig up some evidence to prove that is true, because the studies I've reviewed actually state the opposite. Take the Turnaway Study, for instance, which found that 96% of women denied abortions did not regret not getting one. Or this Finnish study, that found that teens who aborted were twice as likely to die by suicide as teens who birthed live children. Did you know that when abortion is illegal, women rarely die? The most common cause of maternal mortality is suicide due to post-partum depression, which we have no reason to believe is caused by women not wanting their babies. It baffles me that so many pro-aborts talk as if feticide is an evidence-based standard of treatment and therapeutic modality for mental illness. If women were actually being driven to suicide that would be a serious concern, but as far as I can tell, this is just fearmongering about an imaginary problem while ignoring the actual lived experiences of real women. Typical!
4) Anti-feminist? Clearly you didn't even skim the table of contents for my blog, because you would have found this post on why pro-life parallels feminism, as well as how abortion exploits women.
5) And apparently you also have no idea how elective induced abortion works, because if you did, you'd know that every procedure forces the birth of a dead baby, either whole or in pieces. Go to abortionprocedures.com and educate yourself. Also, check out this thread of abortion pill victims. Abortion is LITERALLY forced birth.
6) Let me again emphasize how BORING this comment is. Absolutely inane, cliché, unoriginal, overused, washed-up, and banal. Next time, present me with a unique account of fetal non-personhood. Fetuses are people are I am very confident that you can't prove otherwise.
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did you read any nonfiction this year? if you did, what do you recommend?
i did! i love nonfiction!
everyone will recommend i'm glad my mom died, and they're right. the audiobook is great for this one. (if you like celeb memoirs, i LOVED gabrielle union's we're going to need more wine and amber ruffin's you'll never believe what happened to lacey (and it's sequel). definitely get the audio for amber's, although gabrielle's audio is also good!)
the turnaway study describes a ten-year long study about women who received abortions, and also women who were denied abortions.
we had a little real estate problem is a history of native americans and their relationship to comedy. i love books about how pop culture reflects our society, and this was so interesting.
84, charing cross road is a collection of real letters between an author in new york and a rare book dealer in london, spanning their twenty year friendship in which they never met in person.
we carry their bones is a book by a forensic anthropologist who worked to exhume the graves of the boys buried at the dozier school for boys, a viciously abusive school in florida that ran from 1900-2011. she talks about the history of the school, the process of finding the boys and reuniting them with their families, and the contentious relationship the scientists had with the town who wanted to hide its racist past.
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ABORTION: A matter of women’s right, health and justice.
The fight for the right to legal, safe abortion isn’t just about political ideologies. It’s all about life or death, health and safety, rights, and justice. Women’s bodies and their choices and future should never be up for debate. Although this topic quite controversial to even begin with but I want to use this opportunity to raise my voice about why should we legalize abortion. This issue makes a big slap in women’s world ever since The Government of United States banned women to get their fetus for abortion. Furthermore, there so many reasons why we strongly need to legalize abortion. So, let’s get into it.
In my opinion, women deserve full control over their bodies. For over a decade, long woman doesn’t have that many rights compare to man. We were told how to behave, how to wear or what to do to our body to be accept to the community and be treated fairly. Bodily autonomy isn’t up for negotiation. Every woman should have decision about her own body including whether to carry a life inside their womb. When abortion is criminalized, it strips women of this basic human right. The United Nations itself recognizes access to safe abortion as essential for women’s health and equality. Yet, in many countries the right is denied, forcing women to into unsafe, life-threatening situation. Legalizing abortion puts the power back where it belongs which is in the hands of women.
Don’t you think criminalizing abortion kills women? Let’s be clear, making abortion illegal doesn’t stop it from happening. It just makes it dangerous. Every year, according to the World Health Organization, 25million unsafe abortion take place. This result in about 47,000 preventable deaths of millions of women suffering from severe complications. How sad to hear this. Countries like south Africa saw maternal deaths plummet after they legalized abortion, proving that when women have access to safe procedures, lives are saved. To me banning abortion isn’t “pro-life” but it is a dangerous, sickening, irresponsible and lethal act.
Legalization abortion empowers women economically. From my standpoint, denying women access to abortion forces them into a cycle of poverty and limits their future opportunities. Guttmacher institute show research that women who can make choices about their pregnancies are more likely to complete their education, secure better jobs, and achieve financial independence. Based from The Turnaway study, women denied abortions are more likely to fall into poverty. Legal abortion gives women the chance to build a life on their own terms, which benefits everyone including, families, communities, and society.
Legalization doesn’t increase abortion rates. As for me, I believe that legalizing abortion doesn’t make abortion more common but it makes it much more safer. Countries with comprehensive reproductive healthcare, like the Netherlands, have some of the lowest abortion rates in the world because they prioritize education and access to contraception. The argument that legalizing abortion leads to more abortion is a myth only. So…..what actually leads to fewer abortion? The answer is legal access, sex education, and affordable healthcare.
As far as I’m aware no women should be forced to carry a pregnancy from rape or incest, or one that could possibly endanger her life. Forcing women to endure is a cruel act, inhumane, and a violation of their rights. Take the tragic case that took place in 2012, her name is Dr, Savita Halappanavar a 31-years-old Indian born dentist died in Galway, on Ireland’s west coast, after she was denied an abortion by doctors who citied the country’s strict laws, even though there was no chance her baby would survive, according to Ireland’s official report on the case. After this tragedy, Ireland repealed its Amendment.
Lastly folks before I close all of this, legalizing abortion is about more than reproductive rights and it’s about women’s fundamental freedom, health, and dignity. It’s about creating a world where women aren’t forced into dangerous, back-alley procedures because they don’t have access to safe, regulated care. It’s about giving women the power to decide their futures. It also about human rights.
XOXO, TASHAJAN
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last song: bug like an angel by mitski
currently reading: Berlin by Bea Sutton, The Glow by Jessie Gaynor, The Turnaway Study by Diana Greene Foster
currently watching: RHOM season 3
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Just Get on the Pill The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics by Krystale E. Littlejohn (2021) www.krystalelittlejohn.com
The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get on the Pill, a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and ultimately into shouldering the burden for preventing pregnancy. Littlejohn draws on extensive interviews to document this gendered compulsory birth control—a phenomenon in which people who give birth are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways. She shows how this gendered approach encroaches on reproductive autonomy and poses obstacles for preventing disease. While diverse cisgender women are the focus, Littlejohn shows that they are not the only ones harmed by this dynamic. Indeed, gendered approaches to birth control also negatively impact trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming people in overlooked ways. In tracing the divisive politics of pregnancy prevention, Littlejohn demonstrates that the gendered division of labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust.
The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion by Diana Greene Foster (2020)
What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of scientists—psychologists, epidemiologists, demographers, nurses, physicians, economists, sociologists, and public health researchers—to conduct a ten-year study. They followed a thousand women from across America, some of whom received abortions, some of whom were turned away. Now, for the first time, Dr. Foster presents the results of this landmark study in one extraordinary, groundbreaking book. Judges, politicians, and pro-life advocates routinely defend their anti-abortion stance by claiming that abortion is physically risky and leads to depression and remorse. Dr. Foster's data proves the opposite to be true. Foster documents the outcomes for women who received and were denied an abortion, analyzing the impact on their mental and physical health, their careers, their romantic relationships, and their other children, if they have them. Women who received an abortion were better off by almost every measure than women who did not, and five years after they receive an abortion, 99 percent of women do not regret it.
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair (2022)
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America. In a series of 28 brief arguments, she deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Highly readable, accessible, funny, and unflinching, Blair builds her argument by walking readers through the basics of fertility (men are 50 times more fertile than women), the unfair burden placed on women when it comes to preventing pregnancy (90% of the birth control market is for women), the wrongheaded stigmas around birth control for men (condoms make sex less pleasurable, vasectomies are scary and emasculating), and the counterintuitive reality that men, who are fertile 100% of the time, take little to no responsibility for preventing pregnancy. The result is a compelling and convincing case for placing the responsibility—and burden—of preventing unwanted pregnancies away from women and onto men.
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The Overlooked Findings of the Turnaway Study ➡️ https://secularprolife.org/2024/02/the-overlooked-findings-of-the-turnaway-study/
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I'm adopted, because my "mother" was convinced to not abort me, and people like you genuinely scare the fuck out of me.
I was abused in the foster system, I was abused by my adoptive parents, and I was abandoned by my birth parents.
You people allow kids to be born to parents, families, and communities that don't want them. Children who aren't wanted are abused at every turn. You're literally advocating for suffering. Try to imagine what it's like to grow up without love. That's what you're advocating for.
I have the comfort of knowing I can have an abortion if something goes wrong, if Im raped AGAIN. Knowing that my body wouldn't be ruined, my life wouldn't be ruined by someone else's choice. I'm not going to be a parent.
I hope you grow up. I hope you realize the consequences of your ideology. You're taking MY autonomy, I'm not a babymaker. You're forcing kids to grow up without love.
I'm glad I don't live in a country where people take your ideology seriously.
My heart aches that you've suffered so much. That's really sad and I'm sorry you've been through so much, sincerely.
I'm glad you are here. I'm glad you are alive. I'm glad your mother protected you from being murdered. Because abortion doesn't merely prevent a person from coming into being; it kills someone who is real and alive and actually a full person. You may not agree, but it's on you to prove why preborn humans are the exception to the rule that all living human organisms are people.
My friend Braedon was sexually abused in the foster system, and he is ardently pro-life. He knows he is better off alive than dead, and I have other friends who feel the same. I even dated a pro-life communist whose mother was murdered and he was put into child slavery on a farm in foster care, and yet he STILL is pro-life. I definitely don't speak for anyone who has been through foster care, but you certainly don't speak for all of them.
It's not necessary for Pro-Lifers to fix our broken social system before we can demand an end to baby murder, anymore than it was necessary for slave abolitionists to secure reparation before they could demand freedom for Black people. You sound an awful lot like Thomas Jefferson justifying why slaves shouldn't be free when you insist babies shouldn't be alive... we must come together as a SOCIETY and a CULTURE to solve these problems, because exterminating people is NEVER the solution.
I know many people think it is more cruel to place a child in our current foster care and adoption systems than to murder a baby, but without their impetus and as long as abortion is the “simpler option”, the system may never see improvements. The less often that parents choose to carry unexpected pregnancies, the less visible they are, the more shame they face for not choosing the “simple” option, and the less accessible crisis family resources become. Cultural pressure to abort is increased, and cultural coercion is unacceptable.
That being said, I think adoption should be avoided whenever possible, and we should prioritize family preservation. I also think the kinship care model of fostering may solve a lot of the problems with our current system. Ultimately, the foster system is an extension of the police, which I believe should be abolished, and the adoption industry is just as coercive and predatory as the abortion industry.
I also want to challenge your assertion that all unwanted pregnancies lead to unloved children, and that all abortion-minded people become abusive parents. According to the pro-choice Turnaway Study, this simply isn't true: five years after being denied an abortion, 96% of participants didn't regret having their babies. It seems that over time, even parents who didn't initially want to be pregnant came to want, love, and feel deeply attached to their children. And most chose to parent their children.
I'm sorry this wasn't the case for you, you didn't deserve to be abandoned and abused.
If you're terrified of becoming pregnant and you don't want to be a parent, seriously, maybe get sterilized? If you oppose abortion except for in cases of rape and life of the mother, then you have more in common with pro-lifers than pro-choicers. You can be pro-life and advocate for a rape exception. I don't agree with the rape exception morally, but I think it's an acceptable compromise. If you think pregnancy ruins your body (which is INCREDIBLY misogynistic and patriarchal, like what the actual fuck,) then you've fallen for the propaganda pathologizing female fertility. Sorry to break it to you.
I don't think a child would ruin your life. But don't take my word for it, hear it from someone who aborted after rape. Believe it or not, 50% of women who conceive in rape keep their babies and love them. Ayala conceived in rape and loved her baby deeply, as did my friend Avie. I'm not taking your autonomy by insisting you should not be allowed to kill preborn people with impunity. I'm advocating against a mass human rights violation.
You should see the victims of YOUR ideology.
If you don't live in the US, kindly fuck off. You don't have a clue how extremist the US is when it comes to abortion. We literally allow abortion up until the baby begins to exit the vaginal canal for any reason. The only restriction we have is that you may not pull an infant's legs out of their mom's vagina to kill them by sucking out their brain from the back of their neck with a vacuum. That's literally the only kind of pregnancy termination that is banned.
Also, may I recommend some therapy? Your projection makes you come off as traumatized, which I know you are after all you've been through. When you grow up, I hope you heal. Get well soon.
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https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416421/five-years-after-abortion-nearly-all-women-say-it-was-right-decision-study
Ah yes, the Turnaway study. Most of what I have to say about that study can be found here:
A British science magazine, New Scientist, also noted that the Turnaway Study may be “biased” because only 38% of the women asked to participate in the study actually did, and the women who dropped out or did not participate may have been the ones who felt more negatively about their abortions.
Contrary to what the study claims, abortion regret is not rare. However, sometimes it takes years – even decades – before a woman begins coming to terms with her unborn baby’s abortion death.
A British survey in 2006 found that 82% of respondents said they deeply regretted their abortions. Of the 248 women who participated, only 26 said they had few or no regrets.
Numerous studies also link abortions to an increased risk of mental health problems, including a 2009 study from the University of Otago in New Zealand. More than 85% of women reported negative reactions to their abortions including sorrow, sadness, guilt, regret, grief and disappointment, according to the study.
Other studies indicate that post-abortive women are at a higher risk of suicide. One study published in the British Medical Journal in 2013 found that women who had abortions were seven times more likely to commit suicide than women who gave birth.
Lead author Professor David Fergusson, who described himself as a pro-choice atheist, also led the research team in a 2008 study that concluded that women who continued an unwanted or mistimed pregnancy did not experience a significant increase in mental health problems. Further, having an abortion did not reduce their mental health risks.
A 2011 study in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that 10% of mental health problems among women, including 35% of suicidal behaviors, may be attributable to abortion. Women who had abortions were 81% more likely to experience mental health problems compared to all other control groups, and 55% more likely to have problems compared to women who delivered an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.
The increased risk of suicide following abortion has been recognized in Australia as well. A 2013 Queensland Maternal and Perinatal Quality Council report noted: “There appears to be a significant worldwide risk of maternal suicide following termination of pregnancy and, in fact, a higher risk than that following term delivery. The potential for depression and other mental health issues at this time needs to be better appreciated.”
The infamous Turnaway study is not as reliable as you think it is.
-Sarah
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did u know that women who are turned away from abortions actually have a 90% increase in happiness? It's true! Google "Turnaway study" to learn more :))
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