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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:22 pm

"Terminating an unwanted first pregnancy does not appear to increase the risk of depression, according to a study published online by the BMJ. In fact, abortion may be linked to a lower risk of depression, the authors suggest, through beneficial effects on education, income and family size." Read this article here:
http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/1832/0

Personal accounts by women who most definately are not depressed after undergoing an abortion can be found at: www.imnotsorry.net

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:21 am

Nethilia provided quite a few links recently:

Negative emotions split into two factors: socially-and internally-based. Positive emotions, constituting the third factor, were experienced most strongly.

From here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1146976&dopt=Citation

[...]rather, there appears to be a sense of relief and opportunity for personal growth.

From here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12316615&dopt=Citation

Healthy women who choose to terminate an unintended pregnancy in the first trimester have few serious or negative emotional consequences. Although a few women may have ambivalent feelings or feelings of guilt, most have a sense of relief and other positive reactions.

From here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1728085&dopt=Citation

Furthermore, almost all described the abortion as a relief or a form of taking responsibility and more than half reported only positive experiences such as mental growth and maturity of the abortion process.

From here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15081205&dopt=Citation

Indeed, the most common reaction to abortion is a profound sense of relief. In some studies, abortion has been linked with improved psychological health because the abortion resolved an intense crisis in the woman's life. The alleged "postabortion trauma syndrome" does not exist.

From here http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/140/8/620

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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:38 pm

Kukushka, your first four links are not working. It would appear they are links to pages via the search engine, not the links to the actual pages.

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:07 pm

http://health.discovery.com/encyclopedias/illnesses.html?article=2774

It only has a tidbit, but still

EDIT 6/14/09:
I have no idea why I posted that. It may have been different before, but now it claims that abortion does cause severe emotional problems and uses the term "unborn child". Please do not use this link in the future.

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:29 pm

Here are a couple more resources that might prove helpful.

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Psychologic complications do not typically occur but may occur in women who had psychologic symptoms before pregnancy, who terminated a desired pregnancy for medical reasons (maternal or fetal), who have considerable ambivalence about the abortion, who are adolescents, who had a late abortion, or who obtained an abortion illegally.

MERCK

The friendly folks at the Alan Guttmacher Institute have also put together a rather lengthy piece regaurding the very same issue.

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:13 pm

Here's a source that people would have to be outright lying to themselves to distrust:

http://www.apa.org/releases/abortion-report.html

I'm not going to quote, because the whole page is worth a read. Enjoy!

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:13 pm

I did a paper on abortion rights for women for my women in contemporary society class ... and I looked at a couple of studies declaring something called "post abortion syndrome" which is complete bullshit. There is a far greater chance of developing post partum depression, something which is actually recognized in the psychological community.

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:31 pm

More evidence was released recently:

PhaedraMcSpiffy

MSNBC Women's Health News | Abortion not seen linked with depression

Quote:

WASHINGTON - No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, or a "post-abortion syndrome," and efforts to show it does occur appear to be politically motivated, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reviewed 21 studies involving more than 150,000 women and found the high-quality studies showed no significant differences in long-term mental health between women who choose to abort a pregnancy and others.

via Feministing

So essentially, it's been shown again that "post abortion syndrome" does not exist and that surveys supporting it are flawed and politically motivated. I'm not surprised. Even if such a syndrome did exist, would that really be any reason to make abortion illegal? Just because some women have negative expereinces and regrets does not mean that the right to an abortion should be taken away from all women. This "for their own good" crap is insulting to women's intelligence and just serves to disguise the pro-life movement's utter lack of respect and compassion for women.

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