I am working on getting a copy of this booklet "Abortion and Mental Health" by Dr Pravin Thevathasan. I love this line: "Indeed no study has reported that it reduces mental health risks - a fact which surely challenges the use of psychiatric reasons for justifying abortion."
Study on Abortion and Mental Health
Dr Pravin Thevathasan, a psychiatrist with over twenty years'
experience, who also holds a Masters in medical ethics and law, has
written a very helpful booklet on Abortion and Mental Health in which he examines the psychological consequences of induced abortion. He notes:
Perhaps the most important statement in this study is that, while over ninety per cent of abortions are done on the ground that continuation of the pregnancy would lead to serious damage to the women's mental health, there is no evidence that abortion reduces the mental health risks of unwanted pregnancy. Indeed no study has reported that it reduces mental health risks - a fact which surely challenges the use of psychiatric reasons for justifying abortion.
read the rest here: http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2010/07/study-on-abortion-and-mental-health.html
