Women More Likely to Face Mental Health Problems After Abortion Than After Birth

“Follow the science.” We do. That’s why we know that abortions are horrible in every imaginable way, most of all to helpless unborn children.

Over the years the evidence–the scientific evidence–has mounted that women who take the lives of their children suffer. A new study out of Quebec—titled “Induced abortion and implications for long-term mental health: a cohort study of 1.2 million pregnancies”—found that women who had an induced abortion were much more than twice as likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric issues than women who carried their babies to term.

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Nathalie Auger, Jessica Healy- Profitós, Aimina Ayoub, Antoine Lewin, and Nancy Low found

Rates of mental health-related hospitalization were higher following induced abortions than other pregnancies (104.0 vs. 42.0 per 10,000 person-years).

Publishing in Journal of Psychiatric Research, this was no small study. They followed 28,721 women who aborted and 1,228,807 who gave birth in hospitals in Quebec between 2006 and 2022.

More specifically, Auger,  Healy- Profitós, Ayoub, Lewin, and Low found

Abortion was associated with the long-term risk of hospitalization for psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and suicide attempts in models adjusted for age, comorbidity, preexisting mental illness, material deprivation, rural residence, and time period. Abortion was more strongly associated with eating disorders, hallucinogen use disorders, and cocaine use disorders.

Their conclusion was tempered but important nonetheless:

While these findings are not evidence of a causal link between abortion and long-term mental health sequelae, they support the possibility that abortion may be a marker of an increased lifetime risk of mental disorders. Screening for mental disorders at the time of abortion may be an opportunity to identify women who could benefit from psychological and social support, particularly women with preexisting mental health disorders, under age 25 years, and with previous live births or abortions.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.

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