Research shows the best predictor of a woman’s mental health after an abortion is her mental health before it
bring mental health problems to women who have the terminations? The answer seems to be mostly no, sometimes yes. But if women who experience emotional distress are in a minority, we cannot simply ignore their suffering. They are sisters, daughters, friends, girlfriends, even mothers who need support, not only from professionals, but from friends and family.
More recently, in 2018, a review of 30 years of research published by the British Journal of Psychiatry summed up the situation as follows: ”… the results do not support strong pro-life positions that claim that abortion has large and devastating effects on the mental health of women. Neither do the results support strong pro-choice positions that imply that abortion is without any mental health effects.
Also, the review states that women who planned and wanted a pregnancy, but terminated it during the second or third trimester because of a life-threatening birth defect, faced mental health problems, “comparable to mental health problems among women who miscarried or lost a newborn baby, and less severe than the distress among women who delivered babies with severe birth defects”.
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