Abortion/Depression "Link" Is FALSE!

[ravan]

Politically motivated "studies" that have been biased and loaded with a religious agenda have been trotted out for years to "prove" that abortions harm mothers, bah, blah. It's one of the few non-religious arguments that is used against allowing abortions.

But it's false.

The reality is the opposite:
Abortion not seen linked with depression, and
New moms at risk for range of mental problems.

Having kids is actually more likely to cause or exacerbate depression than having an abortion.

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[elf]

I suspect that the reason abortion has been linked with depression is that careless, self-destructive behavior--like "unprotected sex"--is linked with depression.

Babies eat the brains. It takes about three years for a person doing full-time childcare to pull out of the mommybrains mindset--and our whole culture is incredibly toxic for both young children and their caretakers; the "nuclear family" meme feeds isolation & depression and probably causes an incredible number and range of neuroses that, of course, are not studied because the people doing the studies can't imagine there's anything unhealthy in their own histories.

(Incredibly long compound complex sentences are not a sign of mommybrains. Really. My kids are much older than three.)