No Mental Health Risk to Abortion? But Are They Sure?

The New York Times is reporting that a panel of the American Psychological Association says that there is no known mental health risk associated with a single abortion.

However, note a few things in this brief report:

1. The panel admits that a woman may experience grief and loss following an abortion.

2. Panel members note these findings are associated with a single abortion (yet approximately half of all abortions are repeat abortions).

3. Many of the over 150 studies they looked at were seriously flawed. (Yet somehow they were able to determine there was no mental health risk based on the results of these seriously flawed studies.)

It's about time that the truth comes out. Obviously grief and pain are associated with an abortion-- as one would expect--yet there is the added complication of the mother being complicit in the death of her child.

Some women are fine after a time but many, sadly, are not. There are many, many women suffering from post-abortion syndrome and the establishment constantly tells them that there is nothing wrong. They are told that their grief, pain and guilt aren't real and that what they are experiencing isn't part of something bigger and more serious.