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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, abortion doesn’t solve all problems either. A friend of mine had an abortion and after that ended up with clinical depression and a lot of ‘what ifs’.  An other one got very embarrassed when years later one of her older kids found out about the ‘missing sibling’. It is not an easy choice. Plus probably the OP will split up with the guy anyway after abortion since this is going to be a deal breaker for him. [/quote]

Anecdotes are not persuasive. There are many people who've felt relief after an abortion in a complicated situation. [/quote]
Depression after abortion is not that rare and can be a pretty serious complication 
https://americanpregnancy.org/unplanned-pregnancy/abortion-emotional-effects/[/quote]

Just because these words are written on a random website doesn't make them true. If you want to make a claim like this, please link to an actual study in a peer-reviewed journal. [/quote]
Here a very recent one on a very large sample of women but there are many more articles, just do a quick search with PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30921593/?i=4&from=depression%20abortion[/quote]

In this study, the treatment group included women who presented at gynecologists offices with psychiatric disorders (depression, anxiety, etc). The control group included women who did not have psychiatric disorders. What the study found was that women of childbearing age who have a diagnosed psychiatric disorder were more likely to have had an induced abortion, a miscarriage, or infertility than women who don't have psychiatric disorders. That doesn't mean that abortions lead to psychiatric disorders. (It's possible--even likely?--that women who already have psychiatric disorders are more likely to have abortions in the first place.)

Correlation is not causation.[/quote]

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