Abortion and its Consequences

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Abortion in the world happens every day. This is not a heathly habit for people to do. America is one of the main culprats to the most abortions. Abortion is clearly a sin. You are taking some ones life away and it needs to be stopped in America.
There are a lot of effects to having a abortion. One of the worst affects is the emotional effects of it after it has bin done. Most women that a get an abortion get a disease called PAS. The causes for this stress disorder are really quite simple. The thing that has made the very existence of Post-Abortion-Syndrome debatable is the fact that it often does not surface until many years after the abortion. It is very common for a woman to say that she is fine about the whole thing, but later in live she finds herself engulfed in feelings of guilt, confusion, and exploitation. The reason for the surfacing anxiety is partly a mystery, but is often associated with the birth of a wanted child, or during unrelated counseling. The very interesting phenomenon about this dis-order is that the synptoms seem repressible, at least for a time. Clinical research has shown that when women are in trusting sharing relationships they report deep seated feelings of guilt, anxiety, depression, loss, anger, and exploitation over their abortion experience. The causes for the dis-order surfacing seems to be in many ways, time itself. The psychological damage, today known as Post-Abortion Syndrome. The consequences are long lasting and destructive

When an individual undergoes an abortion she has a high stress reaction to the experience. Yet all too often her emotional pain is denied at the abortion clinic, minimised by partners and families, mis-diagnosed or trivialised by helping professions and ignored by so...

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...s those who have not had an abortion. They also report that there was disturbing amounts of malformations in the births following induced abortions.(Gentles 1990, 75) The rate of miscarriages after abortions is a startling figure at 35% higher than the normal rate. (Hogue 1996, 10). There also has bin a link to breast cancer after having a abortion. A link has been found recently between the termination of a first pregnancy, and developing breast cancer later in life. When an abortoin cuts short a pregnancy, women's breast tissue is left in a dangerously stimulated but undifferentiated state, increasing the risk of later cancerous development. According to studies done by Dr. Janet Daling there is reported fifty percent increase of breast cancer among women under forty five who had induced abortoins. These results were published in the august Journal of the National

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