Consequences of teen pregnancy
and abortion::

Complications

Long-term Health - Physical and Emotional

Suicide

General consequences of abortion::

Long-Term Physical Health

 

LONG-TERM HEALTH - PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL

An induced abortion raises a woman's chance of getting breast cancer before the age of 45 by 50%. If done before the age of 18, it increases 150%. All 12 women in the study with a family history of breast cancer, who aborted before the age of 18 - all 12 - got breast cancer before 45.
J. Daling, Risk of Breast Cancer Among Young Women, J. Nat. Ca. Inst., Vol. 86, No. 21, 11/2/94, pg. 1584

 

After years of legalized abortion experience, a pro-abortion professor of OB/GYN at the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne reported on his follow-up, ranging from two to twelve years, of 50 teenage mothers who had been aborted by him. He noted that "the cervix of the young teenager, pregnant for the first time, is invariably small and tightly closed and especially liable to damage on dilatation." He reported on the "rather dismal" results of their 53 subsequent pregnancies: Six had another induced abortion. Nineteen had spontaneous miscarriages. One delivered a stillborn baby at 6 months. Six babies died between birth and 2 years. Twenty-one babies survived.
J. Russell, "Sexual Activity and Its Consequences in the Teenager," Clinics in OB, GYN, vol. 1, no. 3, Dec. 1974, pp. 683-698

 

"While young women may lack a conscious understanding of the long-term outcomes of the abortion decision, the impact of that decision is real nonetheless. It can profoundly affect their cognitive development. Deutsch found lower levels of self esteem in adolescents who aborted, while a Canadian study of women, post-abortion, found that "absence of affect (expression of emotion) … especially of teenagers, was so marked as to be judged an adverse reaction in itself."
Women’s Health After Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence, The deVeber Institue for Bioethics and Social Research, © 2002 Elizabeth Ring Cassidy and Ian Gentkes. Deutsch MB. Personality Factors, Self Concept, and Family Variables Related to First Time and Repeat Abortion-Seeking Behavior in Adolescent Women (Docytoral Dissertation).; The American University, 1982

 

Replacement pregnancies may follow adolescent abortion.
Adolescent Mourning Reactions to Infant and Fetal Loss, N.H. Horowitz, Social Casework 59:551, 1978

 

Dissociation was significantly related to reports by females of previously becoming pregnant and having an abortion in high school. Individuals who detach from reality by dissociation may disregard clues that may otherwise warn them of danger and become "sitting ducks" for later abuse.
Mediation of Abusive Childhood Experiences: Dissociation and Negative Life Outcomes, E. Becker-Lausen, Am. J. Orthopyschiatry 65 (4):560 (1995)

 

A disproportionately high percentage of women who had abortions as adolescents have been found in postabortion support or recovery groups.
J. Vought, Post-Abortion Trauma (1991)

 

31% of women with long term stress were 14-18 years of age at the time of their abortion.
The psycho-Social Aspects of Stress Following Abortion, A.C. Speckhard, (1987)

 

Among metropolitan teenagers age 15-19 whose first premarital pregnancy ended in abortion, 27% had a second premarital pregnancy within 12 months, 49.8% within 18 months and 74.9% within 24 months postabortion.
Repeat Pregnancies Among Metropolitan Area Teenagers, 1971-1979, M.A. Koenig and M. Zelnik, Family Planning Perspectives 14 (6):341, Nov/Dec 1982

 

Half of teenage abortion patients studied suffered a worsening of pyschosocial functioning within 7 months after the abortion. Symptoms included: self reproach, depression, social regression, withdrawal, obsession with the need to become pregnant again, and hasty marriages.
Wallerstein, et. Al., Pyschosocial Sequelae of Therapeutic Abortion in Young Unmarried Women, Archives of General Psychiatry (1972) vol. 27

 

Among teenagers who aborted their first pregnancies, 66% subsequently experienced miscarriages or premature birth of their second, "wanted" pregnancies.
Russel, Sexual Activity and Its Consequences in the Teenager, Clinics in Ob&Gyn (Dec. 1974), vol.1, no. 3 683-698

 

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