My experience is much different.
As part of my initial intake evaluation on new female psychiatric patients, I always inquire about the number of pregnancies, and how many went to term, or were ended early with either miscarriage or abortion. If there is a history of abortion, I always, likewise, inquire if the abortion(s) has left any emotional scars or impact.
I have been surprised how very few answer that an abortion has left any emotional scars or moral concerns at all. The attitude is usually a nonchalant, unemotionally dismissive one. I have only evaluated a few where that issue has any bearing at all on their current reason for seeing me.
Correlation does not imply causation. I would suggest that the emotional trauma of an abortion does not lead to eventual suicide so much as do the broader issues related to the types of women who have abortions, and the types of life styles and lives they end up living. I am not convinced that a history of abortion causes an increase in suicide, but I think it likely that the sort of woman who would have an abortion, and especially not even care much about it, would be the sort of woman who will likely end up with a life so devoid of meaning as to lead to suicide.
A disordered mind is its own punishment.
Having an abortion is often a highly stressful event and the consequent implications for the person’s mental health have been hotly disputed. A comprehensive review of the literature suggests that there is a significant increase in mental health problems after abortion. Coleman (pp. 180–186) suggests that these risks need to be reflected in the delivery of abortion services, and raises the thorny issue that 90% of UK abortions are justified on the presumption that abortion actually reduces the risk to mental health associated with continuing the pregnancy.
So, an increase after abortion. They didn't even devote a whole paragraph to this, in the journal's editorial. It was in a grab-bag paragraph. On to dental health and so on...
ummmm you do intake on MENTAL PATIENTS? And the fact that they are there at all (after having had an abortion) does not tell you something?
I know people who are mental too (I was married to a ‘borderline’- trust me I know psycho) She was also pretty nonchalant about the 12 abortions she finally admitted to