Abortions linked to mental illness
Women who have an abortion are 30 per cent more likely to develop a mental illness, research has shown.
(Telegraph.uk) They are also three times more likely to develop a drug or alcohol addiction compared with other women, another report claimed.
It comes as the number of women having an abortion in England and Wales exceeded 200,000 for the first time last year.
More abortions – 57,000 – were carried out on women aged 20 to 24 than any other age group. There were 4,400 on the under-16s.
A study of 500 women published in the British Journal of Psychiatry showed that anxiety and drug abuse are the most common mental problems following an abortion.