Is There a Link Between Depression & Abortions? Abortions are probably the most difficult decision a woman could make in her lifetime. An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy when the fetus isn't outside the womb yet. Regardless of whether abortions are morally right or wrong, they still occur. The side effects of an abortion are what really should matter after the abortion has occurred. Yet I believe, as well as some other researchers, having an abortion doesn’t directly cause depression. Depression is a serious illness that occurs within the United States majority of the time within different age group. It is caused by genetic, psychological, and other facts. Depression can affect anybody for any period of time. Some say depression is all in your head, but others …show more content…
Bonnie did her own research and came up with the conclusion of depression and abortions do not have a direct link, “Yet their rate of mental-health visits budged only slightly post-abortion: 1% had sought psychiatric help nine months after the abortion while 1.5% did so after wards.” Bonnie concluded that women having the babies cause women to become more depressed than the women who had an abortion. Which would conclude having an abortion might leave you sad for a while, but more emotionally stable than a newly stressed mother.
Salynn Boyles gathered information and informed us about abortions within the United States, “half of all abortions in the U.S. Each year are performed on women under age of 25.” That should basically let us know that young women are more prone to have an abortion depending on their situations. She also concluded, “For the most part women who aborted a first pregnancy had the same risk for later depression as women who chose to give birth.” This reveals there isn’t any special link between abortions and depression. Boyles believes, like Rochman, that there is no real connection to abortions and