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unwanted or coerced abortions and risk to teens and mothers

unwanted abortions ...

§  up to 83% seeking post-abortion support said they had wanted their baby1

§  coercion may be direct or indirect, even violent  (more)
§  profit-driven clinics are more inclined to close the sale than tell the truth.     
§  coercion or deception can come from authorities or other trusted sources

§  teens are at risk of coercion and post-abortion injury, grief and suicide  (more)

§  fathers and families are hurting, too

more than 100 psychological and physical complications2 ...

§  injury, from uncontrolled bleeding to infertility to paralysis2

§  65% more likely to suffer clinical depression3

§  65% suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome4

§  suicide rates are 6 times higher5

§  higher risk of death from all causes6

 

Few experts have acknowledged the problem of widespread coercion, health injury and post-abortion grief, trauma and death ... denying women even the right to grieve, the chance to heal.

 

Abortion has made it easier for others to abuse girls and women. 
Controlling parents, partners or authorities have coerced, threatened or forced girls or women to abort. If she doesn't comply, the coercion can turn violent.  Many fathers have also bee

 

Homicide is the leading killer of pregnant women.7

 

Young girls have been taken in for repeat abortions and returned to their abusers' custody. Sex offenders are empowered when clinic staffers don't ask too many questions.

 

 

citations

 

1. Reardon DC. Aborted Women, Silent No More (Springfield: IL, Acorn Books, 2002) 11, 333.

 

2. See the article, “The Aftereffects of Abortion” at http://www.afterabortion.org/complic.html.

 

3. Cougle J, Reardon DC, Coleman PK. Depression associated with abortion and childbirth: A long-term analysis of the NLSY cohort. Medical Science Monitor, 1003; 9(4), CR105-112.

 

4.. Rue VM, Coleman PK, Rue JJ, Reardon DC. Induced abortion and traumatic stress: A preliminary comparison of American and Russian women. Med Sci Monit, 2004 10(10): SR5-16.
 

5. Gissler M. Hemminki E, Lonnqvist J. Suicides after pregnancy in Finland: 1987-94: register linkage study.  British Medical Journal 1996; 313:1431-4.
 

6. Reardon DC, Ney PG, Scheuren FJ,, Cougle JR, Coleman, PK, Strahan T. Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women.   Southern Medical Journal.  95(8):834-841, August 2002.  
 

 

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