Pregnancy is not a disease. Abortions are performed to preserve the physical health of the mother. Except in rare instances, such as ectopic pregnancies, in which the child cannot survive, the medical evidence suggests that having an abortion is more dangerous than the continuation of the pregnancy. Abortions are performed to preserve the mental health of the mother. On the contrary, abortion is a well documented stressful event and it has been shown that abortion is commonly followed by serious psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, lack of self esteem and psychosis.
Abortions help prevent suicides.
Conversely, no evidence exists that continuing with an unplanned pregnancy will endanger the mother's mental health. Legal abortions are safe abortions . No figures were provided for the 35,650 abortions done in clinics or for the 459 abortions performed in the United States on Canadian women. The long term physical problems of induced abortion include infertility, sterility and cervical incompetence which often leads to premature labour and delivery, along with an increased risk for immature babies during subsequent pregnancies. Scientific research has established that abortion is an independent risk factor for the development of breast cancer.