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When women first decide to proceed in having an abortion, they goes to a clinic where health studies are done. The women usually know very little about the person performing the abortion, his/her skills

ycle and ends at about the fourteenth week into the pregnancy. A study shows that eighty-eight percent of all women have their abortions in this trimester. Within the first two weeks of the pregnancy, about fifty percent of the women have it then. The second trimester begins around the fifteenth week into the pregnancy and goes to about the thirty-second week. Women who have their abortions around this time usually have either just found out they were pregnant or were scared to tell anyone about it. The third trimester begins around the thirty-third week and lasts up until birth, or around the forty-ninth week. This is the rarest trimester in which women have abortions. This is the most painful trimester when terminating a pregnancy due to the growth and size of the fetus.

Another mental disorder that follows abortion is sexual dysfunction. A study shows that thirty to fifty percent of all women who have had abortions have this disorder. They can experience sexual dysfunction in long or short duration immediately following the abortion. This disorder can include lost of pleasure during intercourse or sexual behavior, pain during intercourse, and/or loss of interest in either sex and/or men.

Rosenberg, L.. "Induced Abortion of Breast Cancer: More Specific Data are Needed." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 86 (1994): 1569-1570.

Vincent Rue, a psychologist specialist in post-abortion syndrome and an author, stated, "Abortion has a painful aftermath, regardless of the women's religious beliefs, or how positive she may have felt beforehand about her decision to abort" ("What is an Abortion?"-About Abortion: What is it?). Vincent, seeming to be neither a pro-choice nor a pro-life, is not concerned for the fetus's life, but for the woman's life after her abortion. He's referring to the effects abortions have in the long run on the aborting woman. Vincent doesn't seem like he would be one to go to an abortion clinic protesting that women not be allowed to have abortions because of his own opinions. Bernard Nathanson, M.D., Ob/Gyn, former abortionist, and co-cofounder of NARAL, said, "People do not understand that there are thousands of serious physical complications from abortion every year in this country" ("What is an Abortion?"-About Abortion: What is it?). Like Vincent Rue, Bernard seems to be neither!

Of all the women who have physical disorders due to abortions, ten percent of them will have immediate complications. "The nine most common major complications which can occur at the time of the abortion are inflection, excessive bleeding, embolism, ripping of the uterus, anesthesia, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock" ("A List of Major Physical Sequelae Related to Abortion"-Physical Health Risks of Abortion). There are also many minor complications. Twenty percent of all complications are deadly. Of the women with immediate complications, thirty percent of them are teenagers. Teenagers are at a much higher risk for immediate and long term reproductive damage.

Hertz, Sue. Caught in the Crossfire. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991.

Terwilliger, M.. "What is an Abortion?". About Abortion: What is it?. 1999.

Although there is the pain during the abortion and the short-term effects from the medications, there are many serious mental health risks women face after an abortion. The most common and serious aftereffect is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). "When the stessor leading to PTSD is abortion, it is sometimes referred to by clinicians as Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS)" ("Major Psychological Sequelae of Abortion"-Mental Health Risks of Abortion). A study shows that nineteen percent of all women who have PTSD. Even with this rate, there is a fifty percent handicap due to women who have dropped out of the study. Many of the women who drop out are most likely to have PTSD. This is a symptom in which doctors do not have to conduct tes

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