{"id":221247,"date":"2020-04-06T08:35:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=221247"},"modified":"2020-04-05T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:41:58","slug":"study-one-seven-abort-against-will-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-one-seven-abort-against-will-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: One in seven women abort babies against their will… and suffer psychologically for it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 2019 study<\/a> published in the Swiss medical journal Medicina found that one in seven women who have abortions are aborting babies they wanted to keep — and are suffering psychological damage because of it. These women are largely ignored by pro-abortion media and researchers who seem to see them as mythical figures. Abortion advocates refuse to admit these women exist because their existence undermines the entire idea that abortion is about “choice.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Donald Paul Sullins looked at the psychological outcomes for women after the abortions of their ‘wanted’ children. Using data from 3,935 women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), he found that one out of every five women who had gone through with an abortion said that they had wanted to keep their babies. However, those around them — their partners, parents, bosses, etc. — didn’t want them to have the babies. Additional research supports these findings. A 2012 review by the pro-life Elliott Institute<\/a> found that up to 60 percent of women<\/a> who have abortions “feel pressured to do so by other persons.” A 2017 study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons found that nearly 74 percent of women<\/a> who had abortions said they were pressured to do so.<\/p>\n

Through his research<\/a> dedicated to these women, Sullins discovered that by age 28, the risk of depression, anxiety, and even serious thoughts of suicide, were nearly four times higher<\/em> for women who aborted a “wanted” child instead of an “unwanted” child, versus those women who had delivered their babies. These women were also at an increased risk of developing substance abuse problems.<\/p>\n