physical and psychological consequences of abortion in general

The abortion, legal or illegal also physically and psychologically harms women and may even lead to his death. The pro-choice propaganda, constantly proclaims the lie that legal abortion is medically "safe" and of the need to legalize or decriminalize due to the large number of maternal deaths due to illegal abortion. This strategy to legalize abortion deceptively called "Safe Motherhood". Among the physical complications of abortion in women they include infection, hemorrhage, complications from anesthesia, pulmonary embolism or amniotic fluid, and the perforations, lacerations or tears of the uterus. Statistically speaking, it is estimated that the immediate risk of such complications is 10%, but the long-term complications is between 20 and 50%.

In addition to physical complications, women suffer emotionally and spiritually than it already has been identified as the "post-abortion syndrome." These effects of abortion include feelings of guilt, distress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, insomnia, various types of neurosis and psychopathic diseases, suicidal tendencies, nightmares about the baby's remains appear aborted, painful memories at the time it was born, etc.

The Royal Academy of Obstetrics England reported that the odds of severe and permanent pisquiátricos problems after an abortion can be up to 59% of mothers. The World Health Organization meanwhile reported that women who have abortions for psychiatric reasons are precisely those most at risk of mental problems after the abortion performed. Other studies show that women who have an abortion for reasons of rape, incest, health, etc., are likely to suffer even more severe than those that have practiced for socioeconomic reasons emotional and psychiatric problems.

SOURCES: Dr. Rafael Cabrera, "post-abortion trauma and healing," X World Congress by Love, Life and the Family of Human Life International, San Jose, California, April 1991; David C. Reardon, Aborted Women, Silent No More (Westchester, Illinois, U.S.A .: Crossway Books, 1987), xxiv, xxv.


The effects of abortion.

In most cases the woman never said anything that could happen. Often the abortion is explained as a clinically safe surgical procedure. But aspects of the "safe" procedure can leave permanent physical impairment, not to mention the potential for chronic psychological problems.

WEBA, (Women Exploited by Abortion / Women exploited by abortion) is the voice of experience. Women from WEBA know the reality because they have experienced. It aims to educate all women about the effects of abortion, to seek an alternative.

"The doctor told me I had only to inject a little liquid, would feel about and then expel the fetus. It was not like that. I felt my baby move back and forth for half an hour, the time it took to die . I had a difficult birth for more than 12 hours and I myself gave birth to my daughter. she was beautiful, she was five and a half months ... but she was dead. "

The following pages list the potential physical and psychological effects of abortion. WEBA want all women to know them:

Physical consequences:

· Sterility.
· Spontaneous Abortions.
· Ectopic pregnancies.
· Stillbirth.
· Menstrual disorders.
· Hemorrhage.
· Infections.
· Shock.
· Eat.
· Perforated uterus.
· Peritonitis.
· Blood clots passengers.
· Fever / sweats.
· Intense pain.
Loss of other organs.
· Death

"My doctor did not tell me I could have a lot of bleeding and infection that could take me weeks, as it were. Neither said anything about the possibility to remove my uterus (hysterectomy), as they did me eight months later "said one of the victims of abortion.

Emotional disorders:

· Crying / Sighs.
· Insomnia.
Loss of appetite.
· Weightloss.
· Exhaustion.
· Swallow constantly.
· Nervousness.
· Decreased ability to work.
· Vomiting.
· Gastrointestinal disorders.
· Frigidity.


Psychological Effects:

· Guilt.
· Suicidal.
· Sense of loss.
· Dissatisfaction.
· Feeling of mourning.
· Regret and remorse.
· Withdrawal.
Loss of confidence in the ability of decision-making.
· Lower self-esteem.
Preoccupation with death.
· Hostility.
· Self-destructive behavior.
· Anger / Rage.
· Despair.
· Helplessness.
· Desire to remember the date of death.
Preoccupation with the date "should" birth or month of birth.

"Nobody ever told me I would live with that decision for the rest of my life ... It's been several years but my continuing it."

· Intense interest in babies.
· Thwarted maternal instincts.
· I hate all related to abortion.
· I want to end the relationship with your partner.
Loss of interest in sex.
Inability to forgive herself.
· Feeling of dehumanization.
· Nightmares.
· Attacks / Earthquakes.
· Frustration.
· Feelings of being exploited.
· Abuse of children.


Here are the facts!

Each year, more than a million and a half women have abortions. That means more than 4,000 unborn children are legally killed each day. For many, abortion seems to be the right decision at the time. But these women are almost never have the potential physical and psychological effects that can be dragged in its wake for the rest of their lives.

WEBA, Women Exploited by Abortion 'Women Exploited by abortion, is a nonprofit national organization of women who have had abortions. The members of WEBA now realize how wrong they were their decisions. WEBA strives to educate women about abortion and its harmful and permanent effects.