Pro-life activist argue that abortion frequently leaves women suffering psychological and physical damage. This arguments are mostly based on peer-reviewed studies published by several medical journals. For example, they used a peer-reviewed study published in BMC Medicine in 2005 that stated that even after five years of the pregnancy termination, women had higher anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Also, a peer-reviewed study published in 2002 by the Southern Medical Journal found that American women who aborted were more likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term. Not only do pro-life maintain that women who choose abortion can be psychologically stress, but can also cause future health problems. According to a 2003 study published by the International Journal of Epidemiology, they …show more content…
Pro-life also states that the risk of ectopic pregnancies and pelvic inflammatory disease increases. A Feb. 2014 study published by Cancer Causes and Control found that abortion "is significantly associated with an increased risk of breast cancer".
Pro-choice:
Pro-choice activist allegate that women who had abortion are less likely to suffer mental health problems. Despite pro-life activists declaring the opposite to this statement with some studies,new studies by the American Psychological Association (APA), the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), and researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concluded that there is no links found between abortion and mental health problems. A recent 2013 study was done to examine the mental health of women who received abortions and women who denied abortions.They found that women who were denied abortions "felt more regret and anger" and "less relief and happiness" than women who had abortions. The same study also discovered that