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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ABORTION

Researchers investigating post-abortion reactions report only one positive emotion: relief. This emotion is understandable, especially in light of the fact that the majority of aborting women report feeling under intense pressure to “get it over with.”8,23 Temporary feelings of relief are frequently followed by a period psychiatrists identify as emotional “paralysis,” or post-abortion “numbness.”18 Like shell-shocked…

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Mental Health Harms of Reproductive Loss

Almost one half of all pregnancies worldwide ends in reproductive loss.[1]   This is a shocking statistic yet, despite the striking frequency of reproductive loss, there is relatively little public discussion about its harms. Not surprising, researchers with different points of view reach different conclusions about the extent of these harms, and these issues continue to…

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Mental Health Harms of Reproductive Loss – Review of the Research

Revisiting Social Policies: Acknowledging Reproductive Loss Approximately one half of all pregnancies worldwide ends in reproductive loss[1] – by reproductive loss I mean the spontaneous loss of a miscarriage or stillbirth, or the induced loss of an abortion.  This is a shocking statistic yet, despite the striking frequency of reproductive loss worldwide, there is relatively…

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Art Therapy

Trauma work requires the patient to recover all of the details and images of the traumatic experience and to construct a narrative that unites the memory fragments and brings closure to the experience. This must be done at both conscious and unconscious levels. Trauma work converts the unfinished experiential memory fragments into a coherent memory…

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Abortion Recovery Research

Posted on May 7, 2013 by EI (Springfield, IL – May 7, 2013) – A meta-analysis combining the results of 8 studies of women facing unwanted pregnancies, published in the April 2013 issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, has concluded that “there is no available evidence to suggest that abortion has therapeutic effects in reducing the mental health…

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New Review Links Abortion to Higher Risk of Preterm Birth

Dozens of Studies Find Women With a History of Abortion More Likely to Later Have a Preterm Birth  Researchers studying findings from dozens of studies have concluded that abortion is linked to an increased risk of preterm birth among subsequently born babies. In a paper recently published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,…

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