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Abortion Has Stronger Emotional Impact on Women Than Miscarriage
Oslo, Norway (LifeNews.com) --

Researchers in Norway have found that abortion has a more significant damaging emotional impact on women than miscarriage. The study found that women who had an abortion two years ago were more likely than women who had miscarriages to be suppressing thoughts and feelings about the death of the baby. Overall, the study revealed that approximately 17 percent of 80 post-abortive women surveyed score highly on a scale measuring "avoidance" symptoms. Such symptoms include avoidance of what happened or "intrusion," such as flashbacks or bad dreams. Women who had induced abortions were more likely to experience regret and feelings of "guilt and shame," the study's authors said. Only three percent of women who suffered from miscarriages had such symptoms the research. Georgette Forney, an abortion survivor who is the co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a group that urges women who regret their abortions to speak out, was glad more research is being conducted into abortion's aftereffects. "My experience is that women who miscarry are usually given a small window of sympathy, but women who have abortions often resort to using drugs and alcohol to cover up the pain because the people who told us it was ok to abort our babies, don't want to listen to our crying afterwards," Forney explained.
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