I have long noticed that the harms associated with abortion are not taken seriously. That is because “the right to choose” isn’t really the issue. the issue is the right to have unlimited sexual activity without a live baby resulting. If abortion has significant medical or psychological consequences, these consequences will limit women’s desire to take advantage of the abortion “choice.” These consequences would limit her right to sexual activity, which would no longer be unlimited. I believe this accounts for the Abortion Lobby’s extreme reluctance to acknowledge any potential harms from abortion.
Helen Alvare’s article, which I linked earlier, has a brilliant summary statement of this problem:
The law should take women’s suffering after abortion seriously. Several European countries keep track of women’s abortions and have consequently reported a correlation between abortion and later psychological and physical distress. In the United States, though—despite efforts made to convince the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to do so—no federal research on this matter is going forward, even though abortion is the most frequently performed surgery among all the surgeries women receive.
Incredible, isn’t it? we don’t even collect the data or do the studies that would allow women to make informed decisions about whether to abort. This is your clue that “choice” isn’t the issue. Ideology is the issue. Creating a new world, where sex and babes are unconnected, is the issue.