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Study from Norway finds difficulties two years later; Abortion's Lingering Psychological After-Effects Documented.
A Norwegian study that compared the psychological reactions of women who had miscarriages to women who'd had abortions found that the women having abortions had significantly more avoidance issues two years after the event than women having miscarriages.
The study, "Psychological Impact on Women of Miscarriage Versus Induced Abortion: A 2-Year Follow-Up Study," authored by a team of researchers from the University of Oslo, appeared in the March/April 2004 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
The study followed 120 women between the ages of 18 and 45 treated at a local Norwegian hospital between April 1988 and February 1999.
Eighty of the women had undergone abortions, while 40 experienced miscarriages. Women were interviewed at 10 days, six months, and two years after the event and were asked a series of questions to determine the nature and intensity of feelings they experienced as a result of their losses.
At each interview, researchers employed an "Impact of Event Scale" (IES), a widely used measure of stress reactions that follow traumatic events. The IES looks both at "intrusion" events - - flashbacks, bad dreams, and strong feelings related to the traumatic event - - and evidence of "avoidance" - - avoiding thoughts and feelings related to the event. For each question, researchers assigned responses a numerical value, with higher scores indicating more serious stressors.
When they began their study, the authors appeared to have assumed, as do many abortion researchers, that those women having miscarriages would experience the most difficulty, in that the loss of their child was generally undesired and unexpected. "Seemingly," the researchers write, "the event generates a problem for women who experience a miscarriage, whereas it solves a problem for women who sought an abortion."
Short-term, the data appeared to bear out this assumption. In the first interview, 10 days after the abortion or miscarriage, those having miscarried reported significantly more "intrusion" events, such as flashbacks, bad dreams, and strong feelings related to the event. With respect to avoidance scores, 10 days later aborting women had higher "avoidance" scores, but not large enough to be statistically significant.
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