In responce to this thread.
(fuzz are you dyslexic?? I ask because you type things like me and its all kinda backwards )
Does abortion cause women to have mental problems??
Well thats actually a pretty easy question to answer.
It can cause severe anquish and depression in some women.
BUT <theres always a but isnt there?> Most of them women who are on the extream side of mental tramma after an abortion are those who had tho choose between the life of thier unborn and thier own life.
Or they are teenagers who are so scared, confused and hurt because they didnt really know what to do in the first place so they turned to the only option they saw open to them.
Many kids dont get support or are asked the first question I was asked when I became pregnate as a teen.
Which is do you want us ( the parents) to set you up an appointment with the clinic to get this problem taken care of?
So this begs the question ,did the teen have any support?
Or did she blindy follow what her parents thought best for her and then suffered later because of it?
Please take note that most elective abortions are performed on girls ages 11 years (no not a joke) to about 23 years all these years they are greatly dependant on thier parents still.
But abortion isnt a subject any fully grown woman takes lightly and its not an easy choice to make even when you have to.
Of course it can cause some problems but so can having a child you think you want then a year or two down the road change your mind..this causes much much much more harm than good not only to the child but to the world itself.
So when looking at the mental harm on when due to abortion to you must look at age, why it was performed, thier previous mental state, thier medical/health state at the time, or if they truly wanted this baby and perhaps something was wrong with it to the point it could not live naturaly anyway.
All of those are biggies on if a woman will have problems later after the abortion.
Breast cancer and abortions.
Ok since my adoptive mother was a Doc lets get a few facts here straight.
During pregnacy a woman has a surge in hormones common info yes?
Ok low down women who have had children before the age of 25 are shown to have a huge decrease of the chance of haveing breast cancer.
While women over the age of 25 are shown to have a decrease its not as significant as those under 25.
Can abortion cause breast cancer?
there is no true hard facts on that one..none however there is evedince to support the therory.
But this is because of an interupted pregnacy and the sudden change in the bodys chemical balance and hormones stability and is cause by any loss of pregnancy not just elective abortions.
There is nothing linking haveing one child before an abortion will change this.
This is the reason you see so many women who are RH negative (like me) have such a high instance of cancer because the body many times naturaly rejects a fetus seeing it as an infection or something that shouldnt be there.
So basicly yes abortion can cause mental break downs in women but there is normaly a underlaying cause other than the abortion act itself.
Breast cancer and abortion is a moot point since if you dont have a child period or you have had miscarrages (or spontanious abortion) you run the huge risk of developing breast cancer.
Now is abortion a means of birth control ?
NO
Birth control is defined as preventing pregnancy (please note I said pregnancy not fertiliazation/ conception they are two seperate things)
Education I belive is the only real way to limit abortions because legal or not they will continue to happen and that is sad and scary fact .