The conclusion comes after a three-year research period involving nearly 670 women of all social backgrounds

Ninety-five percent of women who have had abortions do not regret the decision to terminate their pregnancies, according to a study published last week in the multidisciplinary academic journal PLOS ONE.

The study was carried out by researchers from the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UC San Francisco’s School of Medicine, and from the university’s division of biostatistics.

Its conclusions come after a three-year research period in which nearly 670 women were regularly surveyed on the subject of their abortions. The sample group was diverse with regard to standard social metrics (race, education, and employment) and on the matter of what the study calls pregnancy and abortion circumstances. Financial considerations were given as the reasons for an abortion by 40 percent of women; 36 percent had decided it was “not the right time;” 26 percent of women found the decision very or somewhat easy; 53 percent found it very or somewhat difficult.

The authors of the study concluded that the “overwhelming majority” of the women participating in the study felt that abortion had been the right decision “both in the short-term and over three years.”

These results offer a statistical retort to the claim that women who have abortions suffer emotionally as a result, as anti-abortion campaigners claim. Previous studies cited in support of this claim, researchers said, “suffer from shortcomings, leaving the question of women’s post-abortion emotions unresolved.”

The new study is careful to avoid generalities. It discerns between having lingering emotions after an abortion and regretting the abortion altogether — two distinct responses that pro-lifers tend to conflate — and concludes that post-abortion emotional reactions are normal, but almost inevitably taper over time, and that ultimately, very few women altogether regret terminating their pregnancies.

“Certainly, experiencing feelings of guilt or regret in the short-term after an abortion is not a mental health problem; in fact, such emotions are a normal part of making a life decision that many women in this study found to be difficult,” the study reads. “Our results of declining emotional intensity… [find] steady or improving levels of self-esteem, life satisfaction, stress, social support, stress, substance use, and symptoms of depression and anxiety over time post-abortion.”

SOURCE : http://time.com/3956781/women-abortion-regret-reproductive-health/

The issue of abortion is a very delicate one.

I am pro-life,and against any form of taking of another life,but i have been guilty of judging women who have had kids outside wedlock. Women who had decided to keep their kids instead of aborting them. So what does that make me?an hypocrite of some sort, but who am i to judge?

Women commit abortion for a lot of reasons, some of those reasons are best known to them. Some of those reasons range from rape, still birth,threat by the pregnancy to the mothers life,ladies who feel that the pregnancy will derail their future plans i.e students,runaway giver of the pregnancy,and honestly most do it because the society, especially in the African Society looks down on single mothers.

Genevieve Nnaji comes to mind.

What you don't know will not hurt you, and so if a woman decides to abort without the man knowing then that's their cup of tea.

Honestly speaking, and this is for the married men and those in relationships. As long as you did not MEET that woman a VIRGIN, there is a strong probability she has done abortion one time in her life. In Nigeria, every road side Medicine Store is an expert in abortion, from the pills to flush the pregnancy out, to the crude insertion of sharp objects into the woman's private part, rendering her childless for the rest of her life.

Abortion is a private thing and i will not JUDGE.

Story

Raayah, Oremussanctus's galfrnd boifrnd, Are u trying to encourage abortion or wat?

If this research waz carried out in Nigeria, ayam sure the percentage ll be far less. Buh wait o! Women no dey shame to talk say dem do abortion again?

what a pity

Op the topic should have been

[size=20pt]95% of Nigerian women once had an abortion [/size]

Better than having bastards

Sad..The Truth is They won't regret it immediately Of Course They got rid of " Unwanted"

Most tend to regret in their latter years,some 10 years,some 15 years after, U don't die immediately u are involved in sin,it kills slowly.

Later they complain Of barrenness and other Problems.Unless they are truly repentant and do away with sin, A sinner can surely never go UnPuNished ...

Unrepentant women.

onomeglo:
Story

No wonder.

"abortion doesn't make you un-pregnant, it makes you the mother of a dead child"-Mother Theresa

omisakint:
Better than having bastards

Are u sure u are not one of d bastards as u have used who ..ought to be aborted also !!!

100% of the men that make them have the abortion are ever grateful to God that they did

Abortion is Evil........ #teamsaynotoabortion

End time is upon us.......FP tins, dancing Sewele Jesu

omisakint:
Better than having bastards

You are very stupid, had your mom had you aborted you wouldn't be here talking nonsense...... Retarded Mumu

raayah:


SOURCE : http://time.com/3956781/women-abortion-regret-reproductive-health/

mumu people and thier mumu research

omisakint:
Better than having bastards

Are you for real?

How can they regret when it is an avenue to restart fuccking again

same way men dont regret wanking

are Africans included the fake research

I concur

This op is trying to promote abortion here.

Pls o, do not engage in abortion, it is dangerous.

Those encouraging abortions are no different from B.O.K.O boys....

raayah:


SOURCE : http://time.com/3956781/women-abortion-regret-reproductive-health/

the Mod who pushed this post to frontpage is fronting for the Illuminati and NWO

So true