Abortion doesn’t just take one life. It claims two.
Study after study shows women who move forward with the deadly procedure that terminates pregnancies are far more likely to suffer higher rates of depression and suicidal ideation. Now, results of a new nationwide survey published last week in the Cureus medical journal reveals how many women are pressured into abortion over birth.
According to the peer-reviewed study by the Lozier Institute, more than 60 percent of women who have had abortions reported “high levels of pressure to abort from one or more sources.”
Researchers asked women to rate the level of pressure they felt from among five sources including the baby’s father, family members, other people, financial stress, and circumstantial pressure.
“Women who perceived pressure to abort,” they wrote, “especially from their male partners, families, or other persons, are more likely to report more negative reactions to abortion.”
“Abortion does not empower women,” said Tessa Longbons, a senior research associate at the Lozier Institute and co-author of the study. “Quite the opposite. The abortion industry enables and gives support to those who seek to control women.”
Pro-life pregnancy centers that provide resources to desperate mothers have suffered violent attacks from far-left extremists. Firebombings of pro-life clinics have escalated since the Supreme Court’s reversal of the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade.
Democrats, however, have only added fuel to the fire by targeting pro-life pregnancy centers with aggressive legislation. On the campaign trail last summer, Nevada Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto
