Abortion related depression questioned.

Anti-Choice proponents claim that women who terminate pregnancies are more likely to become depressed.

As reported in an Article on the BBC News Website - A recent study by British Medial Journal researchers indicate there is no credible evidence of any link to higher risks of depression.
They looked at 1247 women who either terminated and unwanted pregnancy or kept it to term and in fact found that the ones who terminated tended to be less depressed. They also found that those that tended to opt for pregnancy termination were more educated and affluent than those who decided to bring the unwanted pregnancy to term.

"This suggests that if the goal is to reduce women's risk of depression,
research should focus on how to prevent and ameliorate the effect of unwanted
childbearing, particularly for younger women,"

said the researchers.

Sophie Corlett, of the mental health charity Mind, said:

"While any distressing life event has the potential to affect an individual
person's mental health, this study supports earlier research that abortion, as
opposed to bringing to term an unwanted pregnancy, does not increase the risk of
later depression.

A spokeswoman from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which provides abortions to women in Britain, said:

"From our experience, abortion does not cause depression, as long as a woman has
discussed all her options and made a fully informed decision."
"Very few women return for post-abortion counselling and this is because they made the best decision for them at the time and see no need to talk to a counsellor."

Please read the entire BBC Article, there are opposing views from the anti-choice lobby and the lobby-of-people-who-want-to-force-their-religious-beliefs-upon-everyone-else. Example Link 1, Example link 2, Example link 3.