Abortion has always been a topic that many find uncomfortable. With all the politics and politicians including Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court involved there is constant debate on whether abortion is safe for women and if abortion should be part of women’s rights. (Davida Becker, Jillian Henderson, Julia Steinberg 2011) In this day and age women are told both the good consequences and the bad consequences with abortion before they can have one. There are many pros and cons for having an abortion. That being said abortion can include some major health risks. A major health risk of having an abortion will possibly affect your mental health and increase the risk of self-esteem issues, suicidal thoughts, and major depression/anxiety.
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A study was done looking and trying to find possible evidence that depression and posttraumatic stress disorder were causation of an elective abortion. Defever, Hamama, Rauch, Seng, and Sperlich (2010) created a survey that would analyze women and their first times being pregnant. By asking over the phone, questions were answered on different instances such as their mental state before the baby, whether it was a planned pregnancy, and if there was sexual abuse involved. Also Defever et al tried to have as much demographic layout as possible including race, religion, annual income, married/single, among other things like age that the experience of pregnancy occurred. This started giving an ideal of the possible linkage before and after pregnancy mental health dealing with abortion. Further investigation went as follows: The women test subjects were asked whether or not the pregnancy was terminated (elective abortion) or if a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage happened and how traumatic the experience was basing it on the first worst experience or the second worst experience. Using many different assessment screenings like Abuse Assessment Screening and the National Women’s Study PTSD Module, Defever et al starting looking for correlation and causation between abortion and depression and posttraumatic stress disorder in these women test subjects. The results were as follows, “Their mean age was 26. The demographic profiles of the 1581 women were diverse. Education wise 46.2% had high school diplomas or less with 22% living in poverty. 40.8% lived in neighborhoods where crime rates were great. 3.2% had intimate partner violence. With these findings research found that 12.3% had a major depression beforehand with 12.6% involving PTSD.” (Defever et al 2010) So how did the actual abortion affect them later on? What exactly did the study
A study was done looking and trying to find possible evidence that depression and posttraumatic stress disorder were causation of an elective abortion. Defever, Hamama, Rauch, Seng, and Sperlich (2010) created a survey that would analyze women and their first times being pregnant. By asking over the phone, questions were answered on different instances such as their mental state before the baby, whether it was a planned pregnancy, and if there was sexual abuse involved. Also Defever et al tried to have as much demographic layout as possible including race, religion, annual income, married/single, among other things like age that the experience of pregnancy occurred. This started giving an ideal of the possible linkage before and after pregnancy mental health dealing with abortion. Further investigation went as follows: The women test subjects were asked whether or not the pregnancy was terminated (elective abortion) or if a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage happened and how traumatic the experience was basing it on the first worst experience or the second worst experience. Using many different assessment screenings like Abuse Assessment Screening and the National Women’s Study PTSD Module, Defever et al starting looking for correlation and causation between abortion and depression and posttraumatic stress disorder in these women test subjects. The results were as follows, “Their mean age was 26. The demographic profiles of the 1581 women were diverse. Education wise 46.2% had high school diplomas or less with 22% living in poverty. 40.8% lived in neighborhoods where crime rates were great. 3.2% had intimate partner violence. With these findings research found that 12.3% had a major depression beforehand with 12.6% involving PTSD.” (Defever et al 2010) So how did the actual abortion affect them later on? What exactly did the study