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Abortion's Deleterious Effects on Women: Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Mortality Rates.
As pro-lifers have always said, abortion not only kills an unborn child, it also can, and often does, injure the child's mother in ways that until recently have not been thoroughly explored. That unexamined terrain includes not only depression, substance abuse, and a higher mortality rate but also the way a woman treats her subsequently born children following an abortion.
However, beginning in the late 1990s, there has been a dramatic increase in peer-reviewed scientific studies into these largely unexplored areas. They unambiguously document abortion's negative impact on various aspects of women's mental health and quality of life.
These studies ...
- Abortion in the United States: A Statistical Study
- Reference information from: Abortion: An Eternal Social and Moral Issue January 1, 2006 700+ words
...1.) The abortion rate refers...number of abortions performed per one thousand women ages fifteen...years). The abortion rate rose from five abortions per one thousand women in 1970 to...twenty-four abortions per one thousand women. The abortion rate declined...
- Abortions Down, Parental Involvement Laws Effective.
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News April 1, 2009 700+ words
...trends and tracking abortion demographics. The CDC's abortion rate for 2005the number of abortions for every 1,000 women of reproductive...least one previous abortion. (The status...addition, 59% of women having abortions had already had...
- Abortion Since Roe v. Wade: Safer, Earlier and at a `Plateau'
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Susan Okie March 21, 1989 700+ words
...have had an abortion. According...majority of women who have abortions are white...distribution of women undergoing abortions. Although the majority of abortion patients...likely to have abortions than wealthy women, but laws...funds for abortion have reduced...
- Abortions up by 5% - and for teens, 16%: Fingers pointed at 'express' Planned...
- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) July 3, 2007 700+ words
...troublesome to abortion opponents. Abortions among women younger than...Minnesota abortion reports suggests...than 5,000 women listed...for having abortions in 2006...requirement that women considering abortions receive informed...risks of abortion and about...
- Induced abortion worldwide.
- Newspaper article from: Induced Abortion Worldwide May 1, 1999 700+ words
...abortion rates in the word (78-83 abortions per 1,000 women). Rates are also above 50 per...the lifetime average is about 1 abortion per woman. ABORTION LAW * About 26 million women have legal abortions each year, and 20 million have...
- Abortion among young women and subsequent life outcomes.(Author abstract)
- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Fergusson, David M. Boden, Joseph M. Horwood, L. John March 1, 2007 700+ words
...women who had abortions stated that...percent of abortion patients...that for women younger than...advantages for the woman. Indirect...adolescents who had abortions were more...not having abortions to be attending...following abortion before age...of young women ...
- Abortion remains a live issue. (ethical aspects of abortion in Europe)
- Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report Nicholson, R.H. September 1, 1991 700+ words
...many German women went to Holland to obtain abortions. Some still...West German abortion law applies to German women outside the...so that a woman obtaining a legal abortion in Holland...dozen German women returning...had illegal abortions. (See...
- Induced Abortion Worldwide. (Facts in Brief).(Statistical Data Included)
- Readings on Induced Abortion, Volume 2: A World Review 2000 January 1, 2001 700+ words
...rates in the world (78--83 abortions per 1,000 women). Rates are also above 50 per...the lifetime average is about 1 abortion per woman. ABORTION LAW * About 26 million women have legal abortions each year, and 20 million have...
Source: HighBeam Research, Abortion's Deleterious Effects on Women: Mental Health, Quality of...