#abortion studies

[thepro-lifemovement]

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-statement-on-new-study-on-womens-mental-health-after-receiving-or-being-denied-abortion

So one big problem with the study they linked in their article is they are using the data from the Turnaway study. They claim, "This analysis includes all 5 years (11 interview waves) of data from the Turnaway Study." I have already talked about the issues with the Turnaway Study. The scientific article below explains the many flaws of the Turnaway study:

The Embrace of the Proabortion Turnaway Study: Wishful Thinking? or Willful Deceptions? - PubMed

The abortion advocacy group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) has published over twenty papers based on a case series

The Turnaway Study, conducted by abortion advocates at thirty abortion clinics, reportedly proves that 95 percent of women have no regrets about their abortions and that abortion causes no mental health problems. But a new exposé reveals that the authors have misled the public, using an unrepresentative, highly biased sample and misleading questions. In fact, over two-thirds of the women approached at the abortion clinics refused to be interviewed, and half of those who agreed dropped out. Refusers and dropouts are known to have more postabortion problems. In fact, ANSIRH’s own data actually revealed that beyond this first week, the women denied an abortion who actually did carry to term had significant improvements in anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. Indeed, the researchers admitted that they could observe no significant differences between the groups. But this is only admitted in the details of the study, not the abstract, conclusions, or news releases. But ANSIRH’s spin how aborting women did as well as those who gave birth actually includes an admission most damaging to their own ideology. Specifically, ANSIRH’s own evidence suggests that there are no persistent mental health risks associated with women being denied an abortion. In other words, an equally valid headline would read: “Women Denied Abortions Face No Long-Term Mental-Health Problems.” That may help to explain why ANSIRH chose to elevate a single anxiety score accessed eight days after begin turned away from an abortion (including the anxiety of women still looking for an alternative place to get an abortion) into their misleading claim that women who are denied abortions may face more mental health problems than women who are provided abortions

For further evidence on the effect abortion has on mental health:

Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009 | The British Journal

Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009 - Volume 199 Issue 3

Women who had undergone an abortion experienced an 81% increased risk of mental health problems, and nearly 10% of the incidence of mental health problems was shown to be attributable to abortion. 

Lastly, three paragraphs of the Planned Parenthood article is them bragging to the reader how great they are. I would take anything PP says with a grain of salt because they have been caught lying many times before and change information to mislead people. There are much better women's healthcare resources available than PP that offer free services, unlike PP.

[thepro-lifemovement]

Whose Choice? Pressure to Abort Linked to Worsening of Subsequent Mental Health - Lozier Institute

National Study: Over 60% of Women Who Had Abortions Report High Level of External Pressure to Abort   Washington, D.C. – Over 60 percent of

Over 60 percent of women who had abortions report high levels of pressure to abort from one or more sources, and those same women report higher levels of subsequent mental health and quality of life issues, according to a new Lozier Institute peer-reviewed study published in the Cureus medical journal.

According to the study, women who reported being pressured into an abortion by either their male partner or a family member also reported statistically significant levels of:

Negative emotions due to their abortion

Interference with daily life, work, or relationships

Intrusive thoughts, including flashbacks to the abortion

Frequent feelings of loss, grief, or sadness about the abortion

Increased levels of stress answering questions about the abortion

[thepro-lifemovement]

Public Health Threat: New York Data Shows Significant Increase in Risky Abortion Method - Charlotte Lozier Institute

Multiple Studies Link Abortion Pills to Higher Rates of Emergency Room Utilization and Complications   Washington, D.C. – The most recent Ne

A groundbreaking national study published in November 2021 by CLI scholars found that the rate of abortion pill-related emergency room visits increased over 500 percent from 2002 through 2015 (the most recent data available).

A follow-up study this year found that if a woman’s abortion pill-related complications are miscoded by emergency room personnel as a natural miscarriage, she is:

Twice as likely to be admitted for surgery for retained products of conception; and

At significantly greater risk of multiple hospital admissions for treatment of the same complication.

Major media outlets, including New York magazine and Daily Kos, have recently published pro-abortion articles encouraging women to “avoid mentioning abortion, and the pills, entirely” should they go to the emergency room due to complications.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology, the CLI studies are the first to utilize Medicaid claims data to conduct a 17-year longitudinal analysis of 423,000 confirmed abortions and 121,283 confirmed subsequent visits to an emergency room in the 17 states which use state taxpayer funds to pay for abortion.

Dr. James Studnicki, CLI vice president of data analytics and lead author of the emergency room studies, said:

“This real-world data, based on actual Medicaid claims rather than a sampled survey population, should be a wake-up call to elected leaders, public health officials, and the medical community in New York.  The safety of the abortion pill is greatly exaggerated, a deception made possible by the FDA’s decision to stop collecting data on most abortion pill complications back in 2016.  Hemorrhage, emergency surgery, near death experience?  The FDA doesn’t collect that data, which leaves public health officials in the dark.   “Women are far more likely to visit the emergency room following a chemical rather than surgical abortion.  The rate of these emergency room visits is growing remarkably fast.  And now New York allows these pills to be mailed to women without even consulting with a physician?  This represents a serious public health threat.”