90% Of Women Who Have Had An Abortion Say It Was Right Decision

Here is great news for the pro-lifers who are agonizing over abortion's effect on women's mental health! New research shows that abortion does not affect women's mental health negatively, and further, that forced counseling may actually increase the feelings of regret and remorse, creating new mental health problems where none existed before. The research also confirms previous research finding that forced ultrasounds and waiting periods do not result in women changing their minds, rather, they have more negative emotions from those degrading requirements.

 

I wonder if it's the Turnaway Study that they are talking about?

http://www.ansirh.org/research/turnaway.php

 

I think it must be. Thanks for your link!

 

How many of them saw the ultrasound???

 

10% is still a high number.

Few women who keep the pregnancy actually come to regret it after they hold their baby for the first time. In contrast, women who regret their abortions are absolutely devastated, it can mess them up for life.

 

This is just wishful thinking so you can justify in your own mind interfering in a woman's life in such a massive life-changing way. Somehow, someway, you now know better than the woman herself what she really wants!! Even with the hormone rush a woman experiences, there is no reason to think women suddenly change their minds about wanting a baby just because they get one.

Not so, have you read ANY of the recent posts with links discrediting this notion? Regret is generally a quickly fleeting emotion which disappears with the knowledge that the woman made the right choice for her.

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/parenthood-not-abortion-linked-to-mental-illness/?_r=0

The New England Journal of Medicine has taken on one of the pillar arguments in the abortion debate, asking whether having the procedure increases a woman’s risk of mental-health problems and concluding that it doesn’t. In fact, researchers found, having a baby brings a far higher risk.

 

In order to say this...every woman who has ever had an abortion would have to have been asked.

I gave more than enough proof.....MOD EDIT : FLAMEBAIT REMOVED. This is one study probably done at Berkely by a group of pro-aborts.

Have you had an abortion to know yourself Cady?

I just bet if some women came on here...an admitted they had an abortion and had no problems...you would clap and cheer and believe her.

I have had an abortion and I have debunked what you have said...and I am a liar...I don't know anything about having one.

LMAO

 

When you ask a woman, who has just had an abortion, whether she made the right choice, what do you think she is going to say?!? Do you think she is going to admit to herself that maybe it was a human life, that she killed her own child? No, she is going to insist it was the right choice, that's the only way she can cope. And if she has any regrets, she is going to stuff them deep down.

Ever heard of post-abortion syndrome? The feelings of agony and grief can surface years later— sometimes even decades!

 

Lets see now. You post assertions that you can not support, but everybody else is lying becasue that is the only way your post can stand?
Oh the irony...

 

Were I the type to "agonize" over such things, I would certainly find no relief in such "research", for the perfectly simple reason that I'm not an idiot.

 

You are right....completely. But I am fed the crap from people here that abortion does not affect a womans health...and I mean emotionally as well. They can't make a statement like that. I have shown multiple studies from around the world where the consensus is that abortion has a direct link to suicide, drug use, low self esteem and depression.

For someone who has never had an abortion themselves...to say that most women don't feel regret is absurd....completely absurd.

 

I can't speak for all women...but I had no regrets after I had the abortion, I felt relief. And I think most women feel this way initially....but things can change....quickly after the reality sets in..especially if they learn the specifics about the unborn in the womb. I am sure some women...don't regret it at all. If you take a sampling from the women here who debate this...not many of them care...or at least seem to care, because they say abortion is not bad, women don't have regrets..if they killed their child. Most women here are pro-abortion throughout the entire nine months...what does that say about their position?

You are right...you stuff those feeling deep down...the situation they have gotten themselves into...is more important. You don't think its a big deal. PP does not tell you about fetal development...they don't give all the facts. LIke the people here who say women don't regret their abortion....they tell you the same thing. Only thing is today they give women places where they can get counseling...LOL If there is no depression or chance of regret why would women need a counselor?

You try to forget about it...butt things remind you about what you did.....you hear about abortion on television, see signs...read about it on the internet...etc. You think about..the sex, was it a girl or boy...what would they be like. I often times at holidays sit at the table and picture one more child sitting with our family. When I am ask how many children I had I say...three....not just the two living ones I have today.

It never goes away...never. Thats why the pictures of abortions are so painful....and people don't want them shown. Sure they are a reminder.

Thank goodness I have Christ with me...I wouldn't be here today without Him.

Me feelings surfaced some twenty some years later......it can and does happen.

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johnnymo i am not alone...there are millions of women like me. I work with Silent No More...and we talk to thousands of women each years...devestated about what they did. Not only women...but husbands, kids....families that abortion has touched.

You don't know what the majority feels and there would be no way anyone could know this without talking to every women who has gotten an abortion.

 

What saddens me a lot are people who say abortion does not matter...not only to the one killed...but to the ones who did the killing.

Shame.......shame.....shame

It is tragic.....because it simply is not true. Women will not share their feelings about this...because THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW. I just made a thread...for women to share their experiences. Statistics would have more than just me willing to do so. Am I the only woman on this forum that will share their experience? How many women are on this forum? If there is nothing wrong with abortion...then why not talk about it and be proud. Why if what I say is so wrong...doesn't anyone come in and give me a piece of their minds...

Lets see how many women will come in to discuss their feelings and experiences.

If anything would scare them off...its those that oppose their position.

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BEcause I do know more than the rest of you....

How do you know more than I do about abortion. Please tell me.

TEll me what getting an abortion is like? Share your experience johnny.....would love to hear it.

 

Being so enlightened would make it easy for you to refute the research base on some acceptable premise, such as incompetence of the researchers, flaw in methodology, false premises etc.
Claiming not to be an idiot is hardly a convincing refutation.

 

While direct experience is not meaningless it is important to keep in mind that the experience itself from one person can not possibly be an influencing factor in determining the acceptability of the principle. Your experience alone can not be the basis of a law or what is right or wrong. It can coincide with it, but can not be the sole determining factor.

 

Since you have already shared so much please do not take my questions as pushy or an attempt to get personal, but I am simply trying to better understand your position as a whole. In that light please indulge me and I thank you.
Could you please tell me, during those twenty or so years, what was your position on abortion? Also what triggered the negative feelings, the regret or remorse?

That I thing is stretching it a bit.

Do you believe that the devastation you mention is onset by itself, new discovery by those persons or possibly due to outside factors in their community that includes exposure to condemnation or similar experiences?

 

First of all you say its a stretch to imagine that a million women would have regrets. How many abortions have been done in America since 73? No stats will ever be accurate..I think the numbers are way more than this....
Over 56 million women....so you say a million would be high? LMAO

I think people really know what abortion is, they won't admit it...they won't be honest about what it does. They don't want to think about it. Abortion is taking a life...a human life. Some people think it isn't murder some do...but I think the consensus would agree that it is killing a living human being. I don't think people want to hear about it...or see pictures...because it reminds them of what it really is. They want it legal...and if they don't have to deal with it on any level...they are ok to look away.

I do not understand what its like to be on the front line or war being shot against. Would you say...that if I said...I really know what its like...my feelings would be accurate. Can I know what its like? I don't believe so. So it is with regret that I say.. I know about better than anyone here because I lived it. At least give me that much. You can read all you want about it...hear womens stories...work in the field...but unless you have had one...coped with the action....you have no clue.

I gave my abortion story...here it is I will repost it for you...Will send it pm...don't want to take the space up to do it again.

 

His anonymous internet testimony would be just as credible as yours; both unverifiable.

 

If the incidence was high to any significant level, there would be conclusive studies documenting it. The only reliable data suggest the contrary.

I think so too.

Of course they do, why wouldn't they?

Why not?

Yes, not not a significant one.

yes that is true

Lets agree on "human life" because "being" is a lot more tha a first trimester fetus.

A lot of people do not wan to see surgery either and they know what that is also, or soldiers hurt in combat, or people dying of terrible diseases. Such intolerance to certain images is irrelevant as it can not possibly be an objective gage.

This may seem like a semantic argument, but it is not. Most people do not wish to see it made illegal.

Like abortion and some other experiences, it is unique. But that should not be an obstacle in you forming an opinion on the reason or validity of the battle or what can be gained or lost it in it or by not waging it.

I would not even think of diminishing it or in any way negatively commenting on it. I hope that my inquiries did not cross any lines.

Yes you did and I acknowledge it without any reservation.
No need to re-post it, but please consider answering the other questions I asked in my previous post.

 

I wonder what percentage of slave owners said owning slaves was the right decision.

 

Irrelevant to the abortion issue.