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Re: Our Own Auschwiz
Here's one of the longer term ones I've posted recently. I've posted a bunch over the years.
Decision Rightness and Emotional Responses to Abortion in the United States: A Longitudinal Study
This particular one also notes that women's feelings steadily reduce towards a lower intensity of whatever their original feelings were, both positive and negative, as we see with most temporary stressors. This is basically the process of "moving on," as opposed to what we might see in trauma situations where feelings persist, or regrets form. It confirms that abortion has the psychological affect of a temporary life stress, not a trauma or a grief.
There's always outliers, especially in medical situations where the abortion was never wanted, but may have been necessary. Other known scenarios where women are at risk include pre-existing mental illness, and of course coercion situations.
But your average self-motivated elective abortion scenario, which is roughly 95% of abortions, is something women process quite well. Even in many of these more difficult situations which may make a woman more vulnerable to distress, their long-term outcome is positive, as noted by the fact that only 1% of women continue to report strong feelings 3 years later.
Here's one of the longer term ones I've posted recently. I've posted a bunch over the years.
Decision Rightness and Emotional Responses to Abortion in the United States: A Longitudinal Study
This particular one also notes that women's feelings steadily reduce towards a lower intensity of whatever their original feelings were, both positive and negative, as we see with most temporary stressors. This is basically the process of "moving on," as opposed to what we might see in trauma situations where feelings persist, or regrets form. It confirms that abortion has the psychological affect of a temporary life stress, not a trauma or a grief.
There's always outliers, especially in medical situations where the abortion was never wanted, but may have been necessary. Other known scenarios where women are at risk include pre-existing mental illness, and of course coercion situations.
But your average self-motivated elective abortion scenario, which is roughly 95% of abortions, is something women process quite well. Even in many of these more difficult situations which may make a woman more vulnerable to distress, their long-term outcome is positive, as noted by the fact that only 1% of women continue to report strong feelings 3 years later.
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