Tami from Wyoming submitted an affidavit to the U.S. Supreme Court describing her “severe problems with reproductive organs, scarring, bleeding, infertility, depression, pain” subsequent to her abortion.
Thousands of similar affidavits have been collected from post-abortive women. Numerous studies show that women who have undergone an abortion suffer an increased risk of depression, substance abuse, alcohol abuse, suicide, infertility, premature delivery, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages, stillbirths, sexual dysfunction, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer.
Despite the tremendous risks associated with abortion, more than one-third of American women will undergo one by the time they are 45. Few will be told the truth about the potential physical and emotional devastation.
Abortion remains one of the least regulated of all medical fields. Dr. Warren Hern, a well-known abortionist and author of the medical textbook Abortion Practice, has acknowledged,“There are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.”
Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist turned pro-life activist, admitted, “I have perforated uteruses. I have had all kinds of problems—bleeding, infection. Lord knows how many of those women are sterile now.”
Abortion and Premature Death
The dangers of abortion are not limited to disease, depression, and addiction; abortion has also been linked to premature death. One study published in the Southern Medical Journal involving more than 137,000 pregnant women found that those who chose abortion were 62 percent more likely to die within eight years of the procedure than those who delivered a live baby. Researchers attributed this heightened mortality rate to increased incidences of suicide, accidents, and disease. A similar Finnish study found that post-abortive women were 252 percent more likely to die within one year of their abortion than those who gave birth.
In 2005, the South Dakota Legislature created a commission to study the impacts of abortion. After reviewing the testimony of 1,940 post-abortive women, the commission explained:
Women were not told the truth about abortion, were misled into thinking that nothing but “tissue” was being removed, and relate that they would not have had an abortion if they were told the truth. They almost uniformly express anger toward the abortion providers, their baby’s father, or society in general, which promote abortion as a great right … They are stunned by their grief and the negative impact it has had on their lives.
Academy Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn told a radio interviewer in 2007 that having an abortion was the lowest point in her life. The movie star said it was “an extremely painful experience” that happened when she said she was “young and dumb” and didn’t want to have a baby. But,“It was the wrong thing to do and I really didn’t understand that ’til later,” she said. “That was very, very painful. That was probably the worst.” Ellen Burstyn (Newscom)
The U.S. Supreme Court has conceded that a post abortive woman is often forced to “struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns, only after the event, what she once did not know….”
“I Wish I Had Known”
Bottom line: abortion hurts women. For every activist stridently defending a woman’s “right to choose,” there are many more broken voices crying, “I wish I had known how much misery I would live in because of it.”
In an affidavit pleading with the High Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, Caroline from Florida confessed:
Abortion took my innocence. Robbed me of self-worth. Really made me numb. Alcohol use. Suicidal thoughts. Depression, anxiety. Unbelievable guilt. Shut my emotions down. I thought it would be over after one day, but fifteen years later, I’m still haunted by the memories and the tremendous guilt of … having robbed my children of life. I still feel like I’m going to vomit when certain thoughts surface.
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