Health Consequences of Abortion

(Click on Footnotes for Summaries)

Physical Emotional/Mental Other Consequences

Increased risk of premature birth [1]
 

Increased risk of future miscarriages [2]
 

Increased risk of breast cancer [3],  [4],  [5],  [17]
 

Possible factor in autoimmune diseases [6]
 

Increased Risk of Pregnancy-Associated Death [7]
 

 

Increased risk of Depression [8],  [9]
 

Increased risk of anxiety disorders [10]
 

Psychiatric admissions are more common among low-income women who have had an abortion [11],  [12]


 

More prone to abuse future children [13]
 

Increased risk of substance abuse [14],  [15],  [16]

 

 


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