Abortion and pschological effects.

Abortion has taken a head on collision with today’s society. Used to back in the day Abortion was looked down upon and was even illegal. But today it is considered legal and the first thing that is brought to a young girl’s attention when she gets pregnant in high school. Society looks at abortion as just another “thing” that women are using to get out of problems they cannot handle; children. But what these women don’t understand is that having an abortion isn’t going to make everything all better. As a matter a fact it can actually make matters worse. After abortion a minimum of nineteen percent of women have suffered from PTSD, which is a psychological problem. Therefore I disagree with abortion and believe that it should still be considered illegal.
One effect abortion know to have on the mother is suicide. Sixty percent of all women who have had abortions report suicidal intentions. Twenty eight percent actually attempt suicide. Suicidal attempts and thoughts have become more and more common amongst adolescents. They get dangerously depressed and think that what they did was wrong. Young teen girls figure that if they were to ever tell a future man in their lives what they did they would not want them; they feel that they will have no life after, due to the abortion. I believe teens today see abortion as an escape route. They think “oh if I get an abortion I will still be able to go to college and become successful without having to hassle with a baby.” But after the abortion I think most of them wish they wouldn’t have actually gone through with it. That they wish instead of crying themselves to sleep because of guilt they were rocking their crying child to sleep. Most girls think of suicide as a way to reconnect with the child that they killed.
Abortion doesn’t have only have psychological effects on just the mother it also effects the family. My grandmother is evidence of just this. My mom was fifteen when she became pregnant by a man that she hardly even knew. My grandmother was a single mom at the time with two children, barely making it; she wanted the best for her daughters. She wanted them to have everything that she didn’t have as a child herself. So when she found out about my mom being pregnant she forced her to have an abortion, thinking that she would be able to live a normal life and not have to have the burden of being a teen mother. To this very day my grandma tells us all the time that she regrets making this choice. My mom began using drugs at the age of 13, and now my grandma believes that if she would have made her have that child at fifteen she would have grown up and realized her mistakes. So instead of my mom being burdened with teen motherhood, my grandmother is burdened with the guilt of killing her first grandchild. She prays everyday that god will forgive her for the mistake she made.
Another effect abortion has on mothers is it can lead to divorce or relationship problems. After having an abortion many women have a difficult time forming long lasting bonds with people, or even holding onto the bonds they already have. Divorce is very likely to happen since the mother would have a low self esteem, which causes sexual dysfunction; communication goes from talking everyday to not talking at all.
Just the other day I had a conversation with a group of people about abortion leading to depression. One person in the group said “that abortion is a decision that woman make, they know the consequences, they know the risks. How can we tell that their not just “acting” like their depressed just to attention because they want people to feel bad for them?” Honestly this person did have a point. But then again how can you tell if anyone has emotional problems or psychological problems? Abortion is just one of the many leading causes to this psychological problem, many women have reported to regretting what they did after having an abortion. Many have turned to Alcohol to sooth their problems and some have even turned to substance abuse. Just because we can’t see it on the surface does not mean that these women are not hurting inside.
Eleanor Ramsey has written and compiled a series of true stories of post abortion stories. This story stood out the most to me. “Thirteen year old Stacie, came home from school one day, when she met her neighbor on the way, her neighbor told her that her mother was out killing her baby at an abortion clinic. After this Stacie refused to go to school, and refused to listen to her parents. She begged her mom to have another child; her mother was unable to conceive again. Soon Stacie started dating a sixteen year old boy and after that she became pregnant. By having this child and how she had begged and begged for her mother to have another child shows that Stacie grieved for the brother or sister that her mother had killed. She felt that she could get rid of the grief she had by having a child of her own.” (Ramsey) page 33. By reading this story it proved to me more and more that abortion just isn’t worth it. It can affect the mother, and the family. Even after researching the opposing side of my argument I still find no reason why abortion should be considered legal. It leads to many tragic events. Psychological problems are just one of the many events.