Abortion May Be Less Traumatic Than Childbirth, Study Finds

1)There are 1.3 million abortions each year what do you plan on doing with all the unwanted children born?

2)If your answer is place them up for adoption then why are there 115,000 children each year waiting to be adopted. (A white baby is 7x more likely to be adopted than a minority baby) Consider the fact that only 36% of abortions are to non-hispanic white women

3)Consider the fact that 69% of women who get abortions would qualify for government assistance. Right now the government pays an average of $1624 per year per child (not including delivery) on medicaid. (that totals $14,567,280,000 additional per year to cover their healthcare alone.) What program do you suggest we cut to make up this money? Are you willing to let your child's education suffer from budget cuts to make up this amount? That doesn't even factor in the amount that a child in foster care costs.

4)With the increase in 33% of the population what do you suggest that we do to prevent over population in an economy that already has problems supporting it's citizens? I think that we would have to cut down the increase in population and the only way that we could do that is by banning fertility treatments because they are people who are seeking to have a child that could be adopted, we could limit the number of children a couple could have to one or require that people who wanted to have 2 children would also have to adopt a third.

The undenialble fact is that an abortion kills a living human being. That the Supreme Court chose not to accord that living human being the status of "person" does not change that fact. The same court in an earlier period of U.S. history refused to accord "personhood" to a slave. With respect to the study, I think in fiarness one would have to seperate whether the mental health visit was related to the birth "trauma" or the subsequent difficulties of raising a newborn child. They are infact two different events.

The stress of having a baby is out in the open. Abortions are seldom announced and often kept hidden, both from others and from the woman's own thoughts, and sometimes it takes time for the bad effects to surface.

Please, beware of studies like this. A little knowledge becomes a dangerous thing when you think you know more than you do. Having a baby always was stressful and is even more so in our family-unfriendly society. But having an abortion runs counter to the human spirit and the hard-wired call of women.

This study concludes: “The finding that the incidence rate of psychiatric contact was similar before and after a first-trimester abortion does not support the hypothesis that there is an increased risk of mental disorders after a first-trimester induced abortion.” Anyone can finance a study to “prove” anything. This study was funded by Susan Buffett , Warren Buffetts daughter who is a pro-choice activist. Abortion is big business and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation promotes it. It is hardly an non-bias study. There are hundreds of studies that “prove” the opposite; that abortion causes harm to the mother physically and psychologically. For example: Dr. Anne Speckhard at the University of Minnesota found, "After 5-10 years 54% of mothers choosing abortion had nightmares, 81% had preoccupation with their aborted child, 35% had perceived visitations with their child, and 96% felt they had taken a human life." A survey of 1900 women who had abortions were asked "Were there any negative psychological effects... (caused) by your abortion?" 94% answered Yes and 2% answered No. A study from researchers in Sir Lanka finds women who had abortions had a 3.42% increased risk of breast cancer compared with those who kept their baby. Professor of Endocrinology at City University of New York, Dr. Joel Brind, found, “the single most avoidable risk factor for breast cancer is induced abortion.” from Brent Rooney and Byron C. Calhoun, "Induced Abortion and Risk of Later Premature Births," 8 J. Am. Physicians & Surgeons 46 (Summer 2003). Forty nine statistically significant studies demonstrate a increase in premature births or low birth weight risks in women with prior induced abortions including Brent Rooney and Byron C. Calhoun, "Induced Abortion and Risk of Later Premature Births," 8 J. Am. Physicians & Surgeons 46 (Summer 2003). There are hundreds of studies “proving” the dangers of abortion to a mothers health. These studies far exceed the number of studies that “prove” otherwise. An honest debate about abortion side effects, would most likely result in healthier woman and less abortion. Believe what you will, but you don’t need a study to prove that abortion is a serious medical procedure that terminates human life. There is nothing good about that.

This study concludes: “The finding that the incidence rate of psychiatric contact was similar before and after a first-trimester abortion does not support the hypothesis that there is an increased risk of mental disorders after a first-trimester induced abortion.” Anyone can finance a study to “prove” anything. This study was funded by Susan Buffett , Warren Buffetts daughter who is a pro-choice activist. Abortion is big business and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation promotes it. It is hardly an non-bias study. There are hundreds of studies that “prove” the opposite; that abortion causes harm to the mother physically and psychologically. For example: Dr. Anne Speckhard at the University of Minnesota found, "After 5-10 years 54% of mothers choosing abortion had nightmares, 81% had preoccupation with their aborted child, 35% had perceived visitations with their child, and 96% felt they had taken a human life." A survey of 1900 women who had had abortions asked "Were there any negative psychological effects... (caused) by your abortion?" 94% answered Yes and 2% answered No. A study from researchers in Sir Lanka finds women who had abortions had a 3.42% increased risk of breast cancer compared with those who kept their baby. Professor of Endocrinology at City University of New York, Dr. Joel Brind, found, “the single most avoidable risk factor for breast cancer is induced abortion.” from Brent Rooney and Byron C. Calhoun, "Induced Abortion and Risk of Later Premature Births," 8 J. Am. Physicians & Surgeons 46 (Summer 2003). Forty nine statistically significant studies demonstrate a increase in premature births or low birth weight risks in women with prior induced abortions including Brent Rooney and Byron C. Calhoun, "Induced Abortion and Risk of Later Premature Births," 8 J. Am. Physicians & Surgeons 46 (Summer 2003). There are hundreds of studies “proving” the dangers of abortion to a mothers health. These studies far exceed the studies that "prove" otherwise. An honest debate about abortion side effects would most likely result in healthier woman and less abortion. Believe what you will, but you don’t need a study to "prove" that abortion is a serious medical procedure that terminates human life. There is nothing good about that.

Good article really. Just a few objections. 12 months = 1.33 * 9 months So the numbers for the before and after 9 month segments should be; For abortion Before: 1%, After 1.13%. For live birth; before: 0.3% after: 0.53%. Also, aren't the majority of women who receive abortion poor? So then wouldn't they be less likely to seek care for mental health conditions due to cost? Further research could focus on the severity of mental health conditions experienced by the two groups.

"Although with regards to the last point, I'd argue that we ought to pay more attention to and study the long-term adverse mental health effects of having unwanted children."

There is twice you bring up "unwanted" children. Yet this study has nothing to do with it and your point you seem to be trying to make is that you either have an abortion, or you have an unwanted child. Which is ludicrous. Even if you don't want the child, but don't get an abortion, you can give the child up for adoption. Yet strangely (or not so strangely) you have no interest in the mental health of those mother that give children up for abortion.
Also something major missing from the study is why the women sought psychiatric help. Most of the women who went ahead with live birth may have done so because of stress or relationship issues while most of the women haveing abortion may have done so for depression.

DId they ever think that raising a child can be a bit stressful?

I see so many problems with this study - one already noted, that it doesn't take into effect the stress of raising a baby over a period of a year as opposed to recovering from a one-time event, having a baby. Also, does it account for the possibility that women who have abortions may not have the resources to seek psychological counseling that women who can "afford" to have children do? Also, does it compare women who have had abortions with women who have had "unwanted" babies? Too many apples and oranges.

Denmark? LOL Loose ladies inc.? No worries, do your drugs openly, spread your legs whenever,get an abortion, no problem. All those Scandinavian countries make sex the alternative to having a productive, interesting life. A study from them is a joke.