On Monday, there was an article in the Washington Post about a new study that disputes the link between abortion and mental health. It has long been the agenda of anti choice advocates to dissuade pregnant women from seeking abortion by providing so called “medical” advice. One such “medical” scare tactic is Post Abortion Syndrome. Sounds fancy, right? Post abortion syndrome has yet to be scientifically proven as an actual medical condition and is not acknowledged by any professional medical or psychological organization. Anti choice advocates define post abortion syndrome as a form of posttraumatic stress caused by the guilt of having an abortion. In the Washington Post article, Study disputes link between abortion and mental health problems, Rob Stein writes about how a new study based on the same statistics and data used by anti choice advocates to “prove” post abortion syndrome, shows no casual correlation between abortion and mental health. In other studies, abortion has been found to make many women feel relieved, quite contrary to the reports of anti choice supporters. This does not go to say that abortion does not negatively affect some women, but carrying to term a pregnancy can also negatively affect some women. Stress is caused by any change in a person’s life and is not limited to abortion but to any aspect of a pregnancy and therefore medically accurate information and not a series of pseudoscience is important for every woman to make an informed decision. While it is the anti choice agenda to dissuade abortions by any means, it is the pro choice agenda to provide medically accurate information and let the woman choose.
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