FACT Medically, induced abortion has been associated with higher risks of breast cancer, sexually transmitted diseases and ectopic pregnancy. The health of the uterus, cervix and placenta in future pregnancies also at risk. Emotionally and spiritually, many women suffer severely after abortion. Although this is an area needing additional study, we know from available evidence that many women who have had an aberrant experience grief, guilt, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, suicidal tendencies, increased drug and alcohol abuse and eating disorders. Beyond specific figures of maternal mortality and morbidity directly form abortion is the broader impact on general health.
Abortion fosters an attitude and a culture of sexual irresponsibility by promising no consequences.
But, of course, there are consequences - most heavily for women. The social revolution of abortion on demand has aggravated the very problems it promised to solve. We also know that the majority of abortions are influenced by subtle pressure, abandonment or outright coercion. Abortion has clearly coarsened the relationship between men and women. There is the gnawing, abject despair that many women feel after abortion.