You have the legal right to choose the outcome of your pregnancy. REAL empowerment comes when you find the strength and resources to make your BEST choice.

Am I at Risk?

For emotional or psychological problems if I choose abortion?

Are any of these true for you?

  • Being pressured or coerced to abort?

  • Have, or previously had, mental health problems before abortion

  • Feeling very uncertain or having difficulty making the decision

  • Past childhood sexual abuse or unresolved traumatic experiences

  • Want the pregnancy

  • Believe abortion goes against your personal values or religeous beliefs

  • Feel the need to keep the abortion secret

  • Feel attached to the pregnancy

  • Lack of emotional or social support

Women who want to have a baby later in life should be aware of possible risks that abortion poses to future pregnancies.

I’ll Still Be Able to Have a Baby Later, Right?

Placenta previa occurs when the placenta covers or partially covers the cervix. This can result in unpredictable, massive bleeding that threatens the life of the baby and mother, especially during labor. In addition to the risk of bleeding, it is associated with the risk of preterm birth and early death early in infancy. The risk of placenta previa is higher in women who among other factors:

  • Had a prior induced abortion, especially the D&C type

  • Are over 34 years old

  • Had a prior C-section

  • Had a prior placenta previa

Abortion & Placenta Previa

The research is clear: induced abortions significantly raises the woman's future risk of delivering a premature “preemie” baby. The risks exist for even one very, for even one very early surgical abortion increases with each additional one. Preemies have a higher risk of:

  • Intellectual disability

  • Autism

  • Cerebral palsy

  • Epilepsy

  • Blindness

  • Stomach problems

  • Serious infections

  • Deafness

  • Brain hemorrhages

  • Breathing problems

Abortion & Prematurity

Could Abortion Affect Me Later?

It’s controversial. You have the right to understand the likely and possible risks of your decision. But the data about the long term effects of abortion is incomplete. Scientific bias and a failure to tie complications to the abortion procedure make it difficult to determine the extent of long term health risks associated with abortion.

After abortion some women say they initially felt relief and looked forward to their lives returning to normal, but other women report negative emotions after abortion that linger unresolved for some problems related to their abortion emerge months or even years later.

There was evidence that abortion is associated with a decrease in long term emotional physical and mental health. In line with the best available evidence women should be informed that abortion significantly increases risk for:

  • Clinical depression, anxiety

  • Drug and alcohol abuse

  • Symptoms consistent with post traumatic stress disorder

  • Suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Scientific evidence indicates that abortion may be more likely to be associated with negative psychological outcomes and either miscarriage or carrying an unintended pregnancy to term.

Emotional

Relational

Pregnancy often affects a woman's most important relationships. Many couples choose abortion to preserve their relationship.

Yeah research reveals that couples who choose induced abortion at increased risk for problems in their relationship. women experiencing lack of support or pressure to abort from their partners are more likely to choose abortion.

Women who face intimate partner violence are significantly more likely to experience abortion.

After abortion, some women find that their experience of sexuality changes. Some experiences short or longer term lack of interest is comfort or disagree satisfaction.

Teens or women who live with their parents may want to consider making a plan before sharing the news the family. How would your partner best friend or parents respond to your pregnancy to an abortion no matter how your loved ones react? It's important to make your own best decision.

Physical

Medical experts continue to debate the association between abortion and breast cancer. Research shows the following:

  • Carrying a pregnancy especially a first pregnancy before the age of 30 to full term gives a measure of protection against breast cancer terminate a pregnancy results in loss of that protection.

  • Pregnancy hormones cause the breast tissue to grow rapidly. In the first three months, it is not until after 32 weeks LMP that breast mature enough to produce milk and become more cancer resistant. That's why premature birth before 32 weeks LMP significantly increases a woman's risk of breast cancer the same as a late term abortion.

  • The majority of studies of women around the globe around the world show increased risk of breast cancer among those who have had one or more induced abortions.

    First trimester miscarriages unlike induced abortion, do not increase the woman's risk of developing breast cancer.