Women who receive abortions experience less short-term anxiety and low self-esteem than women who are denied them, according to a new study. This is consistent with previous findings that the vast majority of women who receive abortions feel relief.

In the United States, 35 states require a waiting period and counseling before a woman can terminate her pregnancy. In nine of those states, women are required to receive information about the supposed long-term psychological consequences of getting an abortion, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. But a new study published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry reveals that those warnings aren’t actually based on scientific evidence.

…Plus, carrying a pregnancy to term and giving birth can have health consequences — having a legal abortion is actually statistically safer for a woman. 

…All these laws shows how little lawmakers consider the science and women’s well being, Dossett says. Foster agrees: “I would like the debate about abortions to take into account women’s experiences more,” she says. “For there to be data, and for women who’ve had abortions to be able to have a role.”

Being denied an abortion could be more traumatic than getting one – The Verge

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