Abortion exposes women to higher risk of depression
WOMEN who have abortions are risking depression and other mental illness and should be told of the dangers, a group of leading doctors says today.
In a letter to The Times, 15 senior obstetricians and psychiatrists say that new evidence has uncovered a clear link between abortion and mental illness in women with no previous history of psychological problems.
Women who have had abortions have twice the level of psychological problems and three times the level of depression as women who have given birth…
Their letter…says that the medical profession can no longer “play down” the links between depression and abortion… and that the risk to mental heath must be weighed up…on ground of a risk to the mother.
The research prompted the American Psychology Association to withdraw an official statement which denied a link between abortion and psychological harm.
Kelda: The Times, October 27, 2006