Myths about abortion and women's mental health are widespread, experts say

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In pre-counseling sessions and online, myths about what happens to a woman's mental well-being following an abortion are widespread and misleading, researchers say.

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Myths about abortion and women's mental health are widespread, experts say
In pre-counseling sessions and online, myths about what happens to a woman's mental well-being following an abortion are widespread and misleading, researchers say.
10:00 PM · Jul 3, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/health/abortion-myths-mental-health-wellness/index.html

(CNN)It's an unfounded message experts say is repeated again and again: Having an abortion may damage a woman's mental health, perhaps for years.

"There's so much misinformation, so many myths about abortion. Abortion will lead to substance abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts; abortion is bad for your health; every woman is going to regret it," said social psychologist Brenda Major, a distinguished professor emeritus in the department of psychological and brain sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In reality, decades of research has shown "the vast majority of women feel they made the right choice, and they don't experience regret," said Major, who led a 2008 American Psychological Association task force exploring the science on abortion and mental health.

Women who had an abortion in the first trimester were no more likely to have mental health problems than women who continued with an unplanned pregnancy, the APA review concluded.

A large, long-term study, called The Turnaway Study, followed the mental health of nearly 1,000 women in 21 states who wanted and received an abortion and women who wanted but were denied an abortion between 2008 and 2010.

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[crickets]

1. It's as if people are just making it up. 🙄

[Hugin]

2. Just maybe dodging people wearing guns screaming murderer in their faces with bullhorns...

On their way to a clinic for a purely medical procedure might have something to do with a breakdown?

Nah.

[Novara]

3. Uhhhhh, being forced to have an unwanted child is good for a woman's mental health?

Fucking hell.

[Hugin]

4. Especially, if she's 10...

Why are we even discussing this?

[Novara]

5. IKR?

Jeebus fucking hell, what have they done????

Remember when even hinting about something like making a 10 year old carry a rapist's baby was so awful it would make whoever uttered it slink away in shame?

Now it's their platform.